Assisted living in New Jersey
336 licensed communities, listed alphabetically. New Jersey publishes no bulk inspection or complaint record, so these are not ranked by inspection history.
We don’t publish this state’s inspection record yet — so nothing below is ranked by it.
Assisted living is licensed by the state, not Medicare, and New Jersey doesn’t release its inspection and complaint records as a bulk file we can ingest. Several states in this position still let you look up one community at a time on their own site — so the record may well exist; we just don’t have it. We will not invent one: no community below is marked clean, because we have nothing to clear it with. To check a specific community, ask the NJ Health Facilities office ↗ for its inspection and complaint history, or call your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ — a free, independent advocate.
What New Jersey licenses — and why this total isn’t comparable to another state’s
There is no national definition of “assisted living.” Each state decides what it licenses and what to call it, so a state total counts whatever that state chose to license — state counts on this site are not comparable to each other, and a bigger number does not mean more assisted living. Here that total is:
- 256 Assisted living residence
- 32 Comprehensive personal care
- 31 Residential dementia care
- 17 Assisted living program — an assisted-living program operating inside another licensed setting
Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.
† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.
Estimated cost range · regional
In New Jersey, assisted living typically runs about $6,950–$10,450/month.
This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.
Paying with Medicaid
New Jersey Medicaid helps pay for assisted living only in limited circumstances — through a waiver, and not everywhere in the state or for everyone who qualifies.
The New Jersey waiver that can pay for it:
- Managed Long-Term Services & Supports (MLTSS) — covers in-home / assisted living / adult family care / nursing home (managed care, not 1915(c))
In New Jersey: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 800-701-0710.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our New Jersey Medicaid page.
One community below is listed under the name on the licence, not the name on the building.
It is marked licence name. A state lists a community under the legal entity that holds its licence — typically a single-purpose company set up for one property — and that community almost certainly operate under a different public name. The state does not publish that name, so we do not have it and will not guess: attaching the wrong community’s inspection record to a familiar brand would be worse than an odd name. If you are looking for a community by its brand and cannot find it here, search by street address instead.
336 communities — scroll within the box to see all.