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It's a study of metro areas. The Edison-New Brunswick metro area covers all of Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, and Ocean counties (mostly anything but ghetto). The little bit of seediness in New Brunswick (a city of 50,000 people) is a drop in the bucket of the four county area (population 2,340,000)
Makes more sense considering my great aunt lives in Somerset and it's quite beautiful out there.