U.S. State / FIPS 34
New Jersey
New Jersey has 21 counties, 2,585 public schools and 78 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS — the 61 carrying an overall star rating average 3.15 out of 5.
At a glance
Counts come from the current release; nothing here is estimated.
Public schools
2,585
School districts
700
Hospitals
78
Counties
21
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in New Jersey. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$96.5B
Per resident
$10,393
Change since FY2017
+50%
Fiscal years covered
9
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $65B |
| 2018 | $66B |
| 2019 | $67B |
| 2020 | $95B |
| 2021 | $107B |
| 2022 | $89B |
| 2023 | $86B |
| 2024 | $88B |
| 2025 | $97B |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. New Jersey ranks 23rd of 56 on this measure in FY2025.
Most complete reporters
Hospitals reporting the most quality measures to CMS. More measures means a fuller public record, not necessarily better care — the two are easy to confuse and are kept separate here.
- 1Morristown Medical Center52 measures
- 2Atlanticare Regional Medical Center - City Campus51 measures
- 3Cooper University Hospital50 measures
- 4Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center50 measures
- 5Hackensack University Medical Center50 measures
- 6Jersey Shore University Medical Center50 measures
- 7Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital50 measures
- 8Valley Hospital50 measures
- 9Community Medical Center49 measures
- 10Englewood Hospital and Medical Center49 measures
Hospitals in New Jersey
40 of 78 shown, ordered by how complete their public record is.
School districts in New Jersey
The 40 largest of 700 by enrollment. The full list, and every school in each district, is on the districts page.
Rankings covering this state
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