The Greater Princeton Area

Good times are here, and the Greater Princeton Area benefits from a strong working economy.  With unemployement in New Jersey still quite low, and a projected gross product for 2000 at $345.1 billion the region continues to reap the benefits of economic prosperity and expansion. Central New Jersey has been called in the Rutgers Regional "Wealth Belt" because of its demographics and business growth.  Several of the counties in our region are included in this growth evolution -- Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset.  As we travel along Routes 287, 1, 80, 78 and 295, we see the living proof of economic success - expanded housing markets and increasing populations.  With increasing housing purchases

and personal income, our region also is a leader in property wealth per person.  This trend can be seen as a direct result of what Rutgers professors have described as the more than one-half million new jobs created in the entire "Wealth Belt."