There's two ways the phrase can be taken, and I mean both of the ways. Growing up there gave me a unique perspective on life and people, and I wouldn't trade either with anyone. It's also a great place to be from if you take it for granted you're not THERE anymore. The whole State's going down the shitter, and their new Guvernator is gonna make her predecessor look like Ronald Reagan.
There was a time when New Jersey towns - big and small - mostly marched in one direction: forward and growing. But the census numbers from 2020 to 2023 tell a different story for a handful of places. In a state where the overall population climbed ever so slightly, a cluster of towns quietly shrank — sometimes sharply.
Population decline is hitting New Jersey’s biggest cities hard. At the top of the overall losses list? Jersey City. Once one of the fastest‑growing cities in the Northeast, Census estimates show it shed more residents than any other NJ municipality between 2020 and 2023. Newark - my home town - followed, and not by a tiny margin - another big city with a storied past now seeing more people pack up than settle in. Union City, North Bergen, and Bayonne round out the top five, major players along the Hudson whose shrinkage speaks volumes about broader demographic shifts in the region. All five of those cities are not surprisingly all Democrat, solid blue cities.
So where are all these people going? The short answer: most are leaving the Garden State altogether. Migration studies consistently show New Jersey as one of the states with the highest out-of-state moves in the nation. According to the latest United Van Lines National Movers Study, New Jersey ranked No. 1 in outbound household moves, with roughly 72% of moves from the state headed to someplace else.
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