As reported by Aol Real Estate, "NeighborhoodScout found America's best family-friendly neighborhood in New Jersey. It is a small town that is completely contained in a single neighborhood: West Windsor. It is in central N.J., not far from Princeton.
"The school district is top-notch, ranking in the top 7% in New Jersey, and the top 3% nationwide. Families with school-aged children are the prevailing family type. It is also rated as safer than 97% of neighborhoods in America."
Scout's Family Friendly Score (100 is best): 98 (Excellent)
Found Within ZIP Code(s): 08550
West Windsor is in Mercer County, NJ. (use these links to search for homes). As reported by the NY Times in July, West Windsor is "The Town That Tries to Keep It Country...
"One of the state's fastest-growing residential areas, West Windsor faces competing demands: how to develop more housing, yet retain some semblance of its history as a bucolic farming community dating to the Revolutionary War.
"On the one hand, there is an open-space program that officials have aggressively applied to preserve about half of the township's land. On the other, there are 1,196 homes going up in the northwestern corner - many on less than a quarter of an acre - in response to a state Supreme Court ruling in 2001 that found West Windsor had neglected its affordable-housing obligation.
"Residents might wait as long as three years for reserved parking at the Princeton Junction train station (named for a neighborhood of West Windsor), which ranks as New Jersey Transit's second-busiest station and Amtrak's eighth-busiest - the only nonurban station in the country to crack that particular Top 10 list. Meanwhile, across town, families can pluck fresh strawberries for $2 a quart at Grover's U-Pick-Em Farm...
"The two most frequently cited reasons for moving to West Windsor are top-ranked schools and easy access to New York, Philadelphia and the Route 1 corridor between Princeton and New Brunswick." To learn more about the West Windsor schools, things to do, the history, and long-range community planning, read the NY Times blog post.
To get information on housing, real estate prices, sales, neighborhoods (there are 2 55+ communities), and amenities, contact me. I live in West Windsor, am a Mercer County native, and am committed to keeping our lifestyle as enviable as it is now, and preserving the family-friendly feeling and small-town values we enjoy. Want to learn more about West Windsor NJ? Just call or email Joe Giancarli.
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