30 Tiny New Jersey Towns You Probably Didn’t Know Existed

New Jersey gets a lot of attention for its crowded highways, busy suburbs and cities packed into a relatively small state. But tucked between all of that are some incredibly tiny towns that feel like they belong in a completely different place.

And honestly, some of them are ridiculously charming.

These are the kinds of places where you can drive through the entire town before the song on the radio is over. There might be one little downtown, a handful of streets, an old post office, and maybe a local restaurant where it seems like everybody knows everybody.

That is part of what makes New Jersey so interesting. You can go from a packed shopping center to a quiet little community in what feels like a matter of minutes.

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New Jersey's Small Towns Have a Charm of Their Own

There's something about a tiny town that just feels different.

Maybe it's the historic homes, the walkable streets, or the fact that some of these communities have held onto their identity while everything around them keeps growing.

Some are surrounded by farmland. Others are hidden near the Shore. A few are so small that plenty of people who have lived in New Jersey their entire lives probably couldn't point them out on a map.

And then there are those towns you've driven through a hundred times without realizing you were technically passing through an entire municipality.

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Just How Small Are New Jersey's Tiniest Towns?

That's where things get really interesting.

New Jersey has 564 municipalities, and while some are home to tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, others have populations that could practically fit inside a large high school.

We're counting down 30 of the tiniest towns in New Jersey by population.

You may recognize a few immediately. Others might have you saying, "Wait, that's actually a town?"

Let's start the countdown.