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Independent Living in New Jersey

We're still building out our independent living directory for New Jersey. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

Cost of independent living in New Jersey

We have not published independent living local medians. No free complete state source is available yet, so this stays empty rather than guessed.

New Jersey licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for New Jersey are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in New Jersey

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

New Jersey Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in New Jersey resolve concerns about care and rights.

Official Ombudsman locator / program page

Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOV

Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs

Named programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.

  • Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS). New Jersey has no active 1915(c) elderly HCBS waiver on the Medicaid.gov factsheet; elderly / disabled LTSS is delivered through NJ FamilyCare MLTSS under the Comprehensive Demonstration (1115).
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

Free national starting points. Official sites only; we do not scrape these directories.

Cities in New Jersey

Showing the 500 largest of 700 tracked cities.

Show the other 470 cities in New Jersey

Independent Living providers in New Jersey

We don't have licensed independent living communities listed for New Jersey yet.

We're adding providers on a rolling basis from CMS and state licensing data. Check back soon, or browse nearby cities below.

How we rank these

Frequently asked questions

Which cities in New Jersey have independent living listings?

We track 700 New Jersey cities for independent living. See the city list on this page for options near you.

How to cite this page

Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, licensed independent living communities in New Jersey are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Independent Living in New Jersey. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/independent-living/new-jersey/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Independent Living in New Jersey." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/independent-living/new-jersey/.

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