This data set is a spatial representation of municipalities in New Jersey developed by the New Jersey Office of Information Technology (OIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS). It is not a survey document and should not be used as such. The polygons delineated in this data set do not represent legal boundaries. This data set improves upon previous versions of municipal boundaries through the integration of coincident features from several high quality source data sets, as a component of the OGIS statewide Parcels Normalization Project concluded in March 2010. Updates continue to be made as necessary.View the original Municipal Boundaries of NJ data source from NJOGIS. In Fall 2022 The GIS Division held a 2-Day Story Maps and Experience Builder Training for the County's GIS Users. This content is part of the training materials still available to GIS Users.

This data set is a spatial representation of municipalities in New Jersey developed by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS) in NJ State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83). It is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons delineated in this data set do not represent legal boundaries. This data set improves upon previous versions of municipal boundaries through the integration of coincident features from several high quality source data sets, as a component of the NJOGIS statewide Parcels Normalization Project concluded in March 2010. Updates continue to be made as necessary.***NOTE*** For users who incorporate NJOGIS services into web maps and/or web applications, please sign up for the NJ Geospatial Forum discussion listserv for early notification of service changes. Visit https://nj.gov/njgf/about/listserv/ for more information.

© Monmouth County Division of Planning, GIS

This data set is a spatial representation of municipalities by centroid points in New Jersey in NJ State Plane NAD83, EPSG 3424 developed by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). It was derived from the municipal boundaries polygon feature class developed and published by NJOGIS. This feature service is hosted in ArcGIS Online to support high request volume and maximum performance. Please feel free to use this service in any highly used application(s).

Polygon boundaries of municipalities that are active or former participants in the Historic Preservation Office’s (HPO) Certified Local Government program (CLG). This program is a partnership among the National Park Service, HPO, and local government to implement historic preservation planning at the local level. The dataset provides the dates of participation in the CLG program, and links to the municipal government’s website.

This countywide composite of parcels (cadastral) data for Monmouth County represents digitized property boundaries that were developed from best available local and municipal tax maps data. The normalized parcels data are compatible with the New Jersey Department of Treasury MOD-IV system currently used by tax assessors. Stewardship and maintenance of the data continue under the purview of the Monmouth County GIS Office as well as local municipal tax authorities. Parcel attributes were normalized to a standard structure, specified in the New Jersey GIS Parcel Mapping Standard, to store parcel information and provide a PIN (parcel identification number) field common to the PIN that was to be stored in the PAMS (Property Assessment Management System) database to replace the MOD-IV database. Please note that this parcel dataset is not intended for use as tax maps nor for legal purposes. The dataset is intended to provide reasonable representations of parcel boundaries primarily for planning purposes and cartographic representation. Please note cautions when performing a join with this dataset and MOD-IV property records, specifically regarding duplicate and erroneous records. All records may not be provided for in the parcels data or MOD-IV (Tax List Search) tables because of how the data and tables are constructed, or for temporal mismatches. MOD-IV provides for the uniform preparation, maintenance, presentation and storage of property tax information required by the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Statutes and rules promulgated by the Director of Taxation. MOD-IV maintains and updates all assessment records, and produces all statutorily required tax lists. These lists account for all parcels of real property as delineated and identified on each municipality's official tax map, as well as taxable values and descriptive data for each parcel.

© GIS Office, Monmouth County Planning Board, New Jersey.

The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The TIGER/Line shapefiles include both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated places or CDPs (statistical entities). An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a state, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located. The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in partnership with state, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size requirement for CDPs is that they must contain some housing and population. The boundaries of most incorporated places in this shapefile are as of January 1, 2018, as reported through the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The boundaries of all CDPs were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census.

Digital flood-inundation maps for coastal communities within Ocean County in New Jersey were created by water surfaces generated by an Advanced Circulation hydrodynamic (ADCIRC) and Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region II coastal analysis and mapping study (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014). Six synthetic modeled tropical storm events from a library of 159 events were selected based on parameters including landfall location or closest approach location, maximum wind speed, central pressure, and radii of winds. Two storm events were selected for the tide gage providing two "scenarios" and accompanying inundation-map libraries. The contents of this data release support the following publication: Suro, T.P., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Niemoczynski, L.M., 2023, Moderate flood level scenarios: synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation maps for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2023-5005, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20235005. The landing page on which this and 24 other storm scenarios reside is: Niemoczynski, L.M., Niemoczynski, M.J., Boetsma, A.C., and Suro, T.P., 2023, Synthetic storm-driven flood-inundation grids for coastal communities in 10 New Jersey counties: U.S Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RVF9P8. References cited: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014, FEMA Region II Coastal Analysis and Mapping Study, accessed November 2, 2018, at http://www.region2coastal.com/resources/about-the-coastal-flood-study/

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts statistics for Middle township, Cape May County, New Jersey. QuickFacts data are derived from: Population Estimates, American Community Survey, Census of Population and Housing, Current Population Survey, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, State and County Housing Unit Estimates, County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics, Economic Census, Survey of Business Owners, Building Permits.

THIS LAYER HAS BEEN DEPRECATED AND WILL BE RETIRED 6-30-2022. This polygon layer delineates the US Congressional District boundaries in New Jersey, 2012 - 2022. This version of the layer uses high-quality base map spatial data published by the State of New Jersey, instead of Census Bureau geographic data (TIGER.) Where no higher-quality data were available, the TIGER lines were used.This layer, which overlays correctly the highest quality municipal boundary data for New Jersey is an UNofficial version; by law, the official version is based on US Census data (geographic and demographic.)

Congressional Districts are areas bounded on all sides by visible features such as streets, roads, streams, railroad tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as census block, city, town, township, county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions of roads or other linear features. Municipalities split between congressional districts were split by snapping to these lines.

Known as: Congressional District Boundaries for the State of New Jersey, 2012 - 2022; unofficial, nj_munis - based
(Govt_admin_condis)

Traffic counts data for NJ DOT. The data sets includes short term counts (48 hours volumes) and continuous data.

This parcels data set is a spatial representation of municipal tax lots for Bergen County, New Jersey that have been extracted from the NJ statewide parcels composite by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). Parcels at county boundaries have been modified to correspond with the NJ county boundaries and the parcels in adjacent counties.Each parcel contains a field named PAMS_PIN based on a concatenation of the county/municipality code, block number, lot number and qualification code. Using the PAMS_PIN, the dataset can be joined to the MOD-IV database table that contains supplementary attribute information regarding lot ownership and characteristics. Due to irregularities in the data development process, duplicate PAMS_PIN values exist in the parcel records. Users should avoid joining MOD-IV database table records to all parcel records with duplicate PAMS_PINs because of uncertainty regarding whether the MOD-IV records will join to the correct parcel records. There are also parcel records with unique PAMS_PIN values for which there are no corresponding records in the MOD-IV database tables. This is mostly due to the way data are organized in the MOD-IV database.The polygons delineated in the dataset do not represent legal boundaries and should not be used to provide a legal determination of land ownership. Parcels are not survey data and should not be used as such.The MOD-IV (Tax Assessor's) table for the county is packaged together with the parcels as one download. The MOD-IV system provides for uniform preparation, maintenance, presentation and storage of property tax information required by the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Statutes and rules promulgated by the Director of the Division of Taxation. MOD-IV maintains and updates all assessment records and produces all statutorily required tax lists for property tax bills. This list accounts for all parcels of real property as delineated and identified on each municipality's official tax map, as well as taxable values and descriptive data for each parcel. Tax List records were received as raw data from the Taxation Team of NJOIT which collected source information from municipal tax assessors and created the statewide table. This table was subsequently processed for ease of use with NJ tax parcel spatial data and split into an individual table for each county.***NOTE*** For users who incorporate NJOGIS services into web maps and/or web applications, please sign up for the NJ Geospatial Forum discussion listserv for early notification of service changes. Visit https://nj.gov/njgf/about/listserv/ for more information.

This data set is a spatial representation of municipalities by centroid points in New Jersey developed by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS) in WGS 1984 Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere, EPSG 3857. This feature service is hosted in ArcGIS Online to support high request volume and maximum performance. Please feel free to use this service in any highly used application(s). It was derived from the municipal boundaries polygon feature class developed and published by NJOGIS.

Starting with all municipalities with populations greater than 10,000, municipalities are then defined as having a housing density greater than 2 times the state housing density OR wholly/partially containing a census tract with housing density greater than 4 times the state housing density. The resulting municipalities are then ranked by Municipal Revitalization Index (MRI) Distress Score. Municipalities with MRI Distress score greater than 50 are targeted. Municipalities with MRI Distress score greater than 30 but less than 50 are ranked by greatest Jobs to Housing Unit Ratio. The top 10% of municipalities (i.e., the first 57 on the ranked list) are then defined as Targeted Urban Municipalities. Data is for the year 2022.

Map of New Jersey showing Municipal boundaries, Tax Parcel information, State and Federal Legislative Districts, Targeted Urban Municipalities and HUD-designated Urban Target, Difficult to Develop, and Qualified Census Tract Areas.Updated for 2022 Legislative and Congressional Districts.

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs' "New Jersey Community Asset Map" is an interactive mapping tool that allows users to view community assets, amenities, and special designations throughout New Jersey. It also contains relevant economic, housing, and demographic information for each municipality. It is intended to help users gain a better understanding of the characteristics and amenities of New Jersey’s 564 municipalities and to identify appropriate types of investment and development to spur economic revitalization.

This version of the secondary school district layer, representing districts that provide education to upper grade/age levels, uses high-quality base map spatial data published by the State of New Jersey. The U.S. Census Bureau's latest school district boundary data (TIGER) were used for guidance in establishing which municipalities to include in each district. The district boundaries were created using updated NJ Municipal Boundaries (Govt_admin_municipal_bnd). School district boundaries in two areas, on and near military bases, were edited to reflect special arrangements made for students residing in base housing. See Supplemental Information for details. By U.S. Census Bureau definition, school districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide, or pay other districts to provide, public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from State officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to States and school districts. In 2015 NJ Department of Education (NJDOE) corrected grade ranges and district types according to financial obligation, not the provision of educational services. NJDOE used set of grades, based on financial responsibility, to assign the data for each child to exactly one school district, except for districts covering Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County. See Supplemental Information and Process Steps for details.This data set normally is updated annually, with updated school district information provided by the NJ Department of Education (NJDOE).

New Jersey water use information is collected and organized in the "NJWaTr" database, maintained by the Bureau of Water Resources and Geoscience (BWRG). This layer displays annual water returns from NJWaTr that are aggregated by municipality. Returns are categorized by return class and are measured in millions of gallons. Note: records for new returns are added to NJWaTr several times per year. The table data associated with this feature layer has multiple records for each municipality to allow for the data to be displayed in a time series and grouped simultaneously.

This dataset contains the boundaries for the State of New Jersey Economic Opportunity Act of 2014 that are used by the State of New Jersey Taking Care of Business Site Evaluator application. It is the result of a union of the many layers containing the geographic boundaries of areas meeting the qualifications for economic incentives granted by the act.

This layer contains links to online municipal zoning maps, zoning ordinances and zoning office contact information and known to the Department of Community Affairs as of March 9, 2022. These may not include all maps and ordinances currently in effect as the frequency of zoning map code updates varies by local government. The Department of Community Affairs cannot confirm the currentness or accuracy of these documents and provides these links as an information resource for the public. Questions about these maps and ordinances should be directed to the appropriate zoning officer or official.