Edison, NJ - Winthorp road & Colton road (near Edison HS) - safe area?

[NYtoNJtoPA]

Originally Posted by Rare727

All of Edison is very safe. The north side is generally "nicer" and has better schools, but the south side (where that location is) is perfectly fine as well.

Try to avoid that strip of Route 27 at peak hours though. It's pretty awful.

The other person said all of NJ is very safe, or very few places in NJ are unsafe. I don't think NJ is any safer than any other state. I would say it's less safe given the amount of urban blight scattered throughout relative to other states.

Edison is not a bad place at all. It's huge and has many different areas ranging from working class to upper middle to upper class, but it is all very safe.

[Retriever]

Originally Posted by NYtoNJtoPA

The other person said all of NJ is very safe, or very few places in NJ are unsafe. I don't think NJ is any safer than any other state. I would say it's less safe given the amount of urban blight scattered throughout relative to other states.

...and you would be...wrong.

Take your choice of which of these sources you would like to look at, but they all point toward New Jersey as being one of the safest states. Depending on the study year, NJ ranks anywhere from 10th safest out of 50 states to 13th safest.

http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-states-in-the-u-s.html


http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/01/02/the-safest-states-in-america/2/


http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/01/02/the-most-dangerous-states-in-america-2/2/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicide_ratehttp://www.usa.com/rank/us--crime-index--state-rank.htm


If I am reading your screen name correctly, then I believe that you probably live in PA currently.
In light of that probability, I think it is interesting that your "new" state has a higher homicide rate than NJ.
Hmmmmm...

[farweather14]

Very safe area. But as with any area, I would not wander around at 3AM.