All 262 jurisdictions · sortable
Every jurisdiction, ranked.
Grades are computed by a published rubric where a complete ledger exists. Refusal to produce records is shown as prominently as an F. Sort any column. Every figure links to the jurisdiction page and its documents.
Grade distribution · click a grade to filter207 jurisdictions graded of 262 · 26 refused · 32 not yet graded. All figures in dollars. Computed October 4, 2026.
| Records pending | Atlantic City | Atlantic County | no ledger | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Bayonne | Hudson County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Cape May County | Cape May County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| DGrade D · provisional | Clifton | Passaic County | 0.00 | 182,207.07 | 370,076.35 | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | East Orange | Essex County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | no ledger | Refused | |
| Records pending | Eatontown | Monmouth County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Edgewater | Bergen County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Elmwood Park | Bergen County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Guttenberg | Hudson County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Haddon Township | Camden County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Hazlet Township | Monmouth County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Hillsborough Township | Somerset County | no ledger | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records refused | Hudson County | Hudson County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Irvington Township | Essex County | no ledger | 0.00 | no ledger | no ledger | Refused | |
| Records refused | Kearny | Hudson County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Maplewood Township | Essex County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Millville | Cumberland County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Newark | Essex County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | North Arlington | Bergen County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Nutley Township | Essex County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| FGrade F | Oakland | Bergen County | 0.00 | 26,055.00 | 26,805.00 | 0.00 | Refused | View |
| Records pending | Orange Township | Essex County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Palisades Park | Bergen County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | 0.00 | Refused | |
| Records pending | Paterson | Passaic County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | no ledger | Refused | |
| CGrade C · provisional | Voorhees Township | Camden County | 18,416.40 | 48,260.67 | 129,527.07 | 0.00 | Refused | View |
| Records pending | Weehawken Township | Hudson County | 0.00 | 0.00 | no ledger | no ledger | Refused |
- Records pendingAtlantic CityAtlantic County · Refusedno ledger
- Records pendingBayonneHudson County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingCape May CountyCape May County · Refused0.00
- DGrade DCliftonPassaic County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingEast OrangeEssex County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingEatontownMonmouth County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingEdgewaterBergen County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingElmwood ParkBergen County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingGuttenbergHudson County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingHaddon TownshipCamden County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingHazlet TownshipMonmouth County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingHillsborough TownshipSomerset County · Refusedno ledger
- Records refusedHudson CountyHudson County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingIrvington TownshipEssex County · Refusedno ledger
- Records refusedKearnyHudson County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingMaplewood TownshipEssex County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingMillvilleCumberland County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingNewarkEssex County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingNorth ArlingtonBergen County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingNutley TownshipEssex County · Refused0.00
- FGrade FOaklandBergen County · Refused · Funding-source substitution0.00
- Records pendingOrange TownshipEssex County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingPalisades ParkBergen County · Refused0.00
- Records pendingPatersonPassaic County · Refused0.00
- CGrade CVoorhees TownshipCamden County · Refused · Funding-source substitution18,416.40
- Records pendingWeehawken TownshipHudson County · Refused0.00
What the columns mean
Every column, one rule each.
Every column is computed the same way for every jurisdiction. Definitions in full on the methodology page.
- Grade
- Reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, computed only where the ledger is complete. A certified program with no payee in the books caps the grade at D. A jurisdiction that refuses records is not graded, is shown hatched, and is pinned first.
- Jurisdiction
- The county or municipality as the State names it in the annual report.
- County
- The county the jurisdiction sits in. A county row names itself.
- Misreported to State
- Dollars certified to the Department of Human Services that the books contradict: phantom programs, certified encumbrances with no purchase order, understated expenditures, misstated unspent balances. The figure is the one the jurisdiction page leads with. Differences in separate years are not added together, because the same dollars can be overstated one year and understated the next.
- Non-conforming
- Verified spending that is not a listed Exhibit E use and has no documented evidence based program, or that replaced local money, where the record documents it.
- Non-conforming share
- Non-conforming dollars over verified spending. Unverified rows are excluded from both sides.
- Spent, verified
- Paid expenditures in the jurisdiction's own ledger, verified to source. Open encumbrances and transfers are excluded and shown on the town page.
- Received
- Cumulative settlement distributions through the last filed report, as the jurisdiction certified them.
- Unspent
- Balance on hand per the ledger at its print date. Parking money is displayed, never penalised in the grade.
- Unreported to date
- Spending in the books for a period whose report has not been filed. Not in the grade until it is.
- Records
- Produced: complete ledger. Produced in part: some accounts or periods missing, or records deficient after a demand. Refused: a denial, a deemed denial after the statutory deadline, an unlawful extension, or a constructive denial by producing something else. Pending: inside the statutory window.
- Patterns
- The pattern families a verified finding places this jurisdiction in. The View link opens the jurisdiction page.
- Empty cells
- The dash means the figure does not apply, for example where no unfiled period exists. The words no ledger mean the jurisdiction has not produced its books, so the figure cannot be known. A verified zero prints as 0.00.