Newark's five wards, then out across Essex, Hudson and Union County.
The most densely packed part of the city, built as rowhouses set shoulder to shoulder on narrow lots, with ground-floor commercial running through much of it.
Newark's grandest residential section: large older mansions and colonial homes on generous lots, with a line of residential towers along Mount Prospect Avenue.
The commercial core: mid- and high-rise buildings, civic and institutional blocks, and continuous street-wall frontages with low-slope roofs behind parapets.
A South Ward residential section of detached and semi-detached houses on proper lots, laid out around the park.
A mix of institutional buildings, student and staff housing, and older residential blocks that predate the campuses around them.
A West Ward residential section running heavily to two- and three-family houses on modest lots, built out as the city expanded westward.
Dense older residential blocks of two- and three-family houses, closely set, with rear additions on a large share of them.
One of Newark's oldest built-up areas: nineteenth-century townhouses and civic buildings around the park, a good deal of it historically significant.
The residential streets around the park carry a mix of substantial older houses and dense two- and three-family blocks, depending on which side of it you are on.
Population, land area and housing-unit figures are 2020 census counts.
Nearly twenty-one thousand people to the square mile on under three square miles -- a stock dominated by closely set two- and three-family housing.
Densely built at over eleven thousand per square mile, with a large stock of two- and three-family houses of much the same era and form as Newark's North Ward.
Just over a square mile carrying nineteen thousand people, with older row and two-family housing alongside a large amount of recent redevelopment on former industrial land.
The densest municipality in this service area by a wide margin -- twenty-five thousand people per square mile on a tenth of a square mile of land, almost entirely attached housing.
Spread across nearly nine square miles at moderate density, with a stock running from older riverside housing to later suburban development and a large amount of industrial and warehouse property.
Nearly three hundred thousand people and over a hundred and ten thousand housing units, ranging from nineteenth-century brownstone rows to very recent high-rise construction.
Densely built on under six square miles, with a stock weighted heavily toward two- and three-family houses set close together on a regular street grid.
Moderate density on under three square miles, with a stock weighted to single-family and two-family houses on regular lots.
Lower density than the city at around six and a half thousand per square mile, with a stock of detached houses on established tree-lined streets.
Similar density to Maplewood, with a substantial stock of large older detached houses and a noticeable share of period architecture.
Very densely built -- over fifteen thousand per square mile on just over two square miles -- in a stock running heavily to two- and three-family houses and small apartment buildings.
Twelve square miles at just over four thousand per square mile -- the least dense municipality covered here, with detached housing on real plots and a substantial spread of construction eras.
Thirty thousand people on three and a third square miles, with a strong share of older detached and two-family housing on established tree-lined streets.
Moderately dense on two and a half square miles, with a stock of single-family and two-family houses on a regular grid.
Nearly eleven square miles at low density, mixing suburban residential streets with a very large industrial and refinery district.