When Do People Feel Stable
Essex County (NJ)
What's scoped, not missing Stability is read here through four things at once: climate, births/mortality, household income, and crime (violent + property offenses, FBI Crime Data Explorer). All four are live as of 2026-08-07. The one real limit: crime is currently scoped to counties inside this site's metro-county footprint, not every US county — a full national pull is many hours of API calls at this source's real, observed rate, not run yet. If this county shows no crime panel below, that's why — not a silent gap, a scope boundary named directly here.
Median Household Income, 2023
One year, one number, from the Census ACS 5-year estimates — not a trend line yet, since only one vintage has been pulled in so far. Shown here as the fourth piece of the stability picture, alongside climate and vital rates, rather than waiting for a multi-year series to exist first.
$76,712
Bachelor's Degree or Higher, 2023
Share of the population 25 and older holding a bachelor's degree, master's, professional, or doctoral degree — the standard educational-attainment summary stat, from the Census ACS. Not the same question as "what does a 15-year-old here expect for their own future" — that needs intergenerational-mobility data (e.g. Opportunity Insights), not yet on this site — but it's the honest, real piece of that question this data can actually answer today.
37.9%
Climate, 2010–2024
Annual average temperature and total precipitation, from NCEI's monthly county climate data. Fifteen years, not a real 30-year climate "normal" — the earlier span (1980–2009) is still being pulled in, paced against NCEI's own daily request cap. Read this as "the last decade and a half," not as a settled baseline.
9.7°C 11.0°C 12.3°C 13.5°C 14.8°C 2010 2025
Avg temperature (°C)
Birth, Death & Infant-Death Rates, 1970–2007
Per 10,000 population, from NHGIS. This series ends in 2007 and the climate series above starts in 2010 — a real three-year gap between them, not overlapping years. Worth reading side by side for the shape of a place over time, not as two lines meant to line up point for point.
0 50 99 149 198 1970 2007
Birth rate Death rate
Violent & Property Crime
Annual offense counts, summed across every FBI-reporting agency inside this county, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer (NIBRS/UCR). Raw counts, not rates — a bigger county will show more offenses than a smaller one just from population size; read this next to the population figures on this site's Reports pages, not as a per-capita comparison on its own.
0 4,293 8,586 12,878 17,171 2019 2023
Violent crime Property crime