Blackwells Mills, New Jersey

56% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 67% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Somerset County, NJ, which contains Blackwells Mills, rather than for Blackwells Mills alone.

There are 10.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Somerset County, NJ, which contains Blackwells Mills, rather than for Blackwells Mills alone.

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Somerset County, NJ: too few schools in Blackwells Mills reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against New Jersey’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Somerset County, which contains Blackwells Mills, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $114,037, below the $126,304 of households that moved out.

At 2.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities. The permit rate is published for Somerset County, NJ, which contains Blackwells Mills, rather than for Blackwells Mills alone.

People moving in and out

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Somerset County, NJ. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Census Bureau's Building Permits Survey lists only jurisdictions that issue their own permits, and Blackwells Mills, NJ is not one. This is the figure for Somerset County, NJ, which contains this city.

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, earthquake and hurricane, with inland flooding alone responsible for 78% of it.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Somerset County has a modeled homicide rate of about 1.8 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 3.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.9 per 100,000 residents in Somerset County.

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Blackwells Mills (Somerset County) rather than Blackwells Mills itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

5 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Newark Liberty Intl at 27 miles.

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.