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Get the full picture of a town's schools, housing, commutes, and community before making your move.
Purpose
Make every community askable.
Schools. Housing. Commutes. Demographics. Understand what the data says—and what it means for you.
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The walkthrough alternates between New Jersey, the first state with a Zip Score, and Connecticut, which has the same map, written town pages and Zippy; its Zip Score is next.
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Zip Score
80–100
60–79
40–59
0–39
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New Jersey
564 towns · Zip Score · heat map · Zippy · data tables
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Connecticut
169 towns · written pages · heat map · Zippy
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Westchester
New York's Westchester County, town by town.
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Long Island
Nassau and Suffolk, town by town.
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Queens + Kings County
Queens and Brooklyn, neighborhood by neighborhood.
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Austin, TX
Austin and its surrounding towns.
How ZipTel works
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Explore: the heat map
Every New Jersey town, colored by its Zip Score, one 0 to 100 number built from schools, safety, prosperity, amenities, street life, parks and the commute. Tap a town for its card and a link to its full written page. Connecticut has the map, the written pages and Zippy; the Zip Score is New Jersey-only for now.
Try: Color the map by any of 190 measures, or switch to Two facts to see how two of them move together.
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Ask Zippy: the AI agent
Zippy is ZipTel's AI agent. Ask about a town, a comparison, or a pattern in plain English, and it answers from the same governed data behind the map, with its sources and methods shown under every answer.
Try: "Tell me about Montclair's schools and taxes", or "Which Bergen County towns have the shortest rail commute?"
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Data: do it your way
The table builder. Pick towns, counties or zip codes as rows and any measure as a column, then filter, sort, add percentile ranks, and export a CSV with its caveats attached.
Try: Towns in Morris County with the Zip Score, median sale price and the effective tax rate, sorted by tax rate.
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What ZipTel stands for
Understand the Zip Score.
Our Zip Score makes town-level data comparable. Start with our recommendations—or build around your own priorities.
Go beyond the numbers.
Explore a county, town, or community through objective data and the context that gives it meaning.
Use it your way.
Plan a move, buy a home, explore a business opportunity, or follow wherever your curiosity leads.
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