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This report presents the detailed geographic analysis necessary to determine where New Jersey remains vulnerable to hurricane and natural disaster damage. It also provides the first accurate measure of power outages by town across the state and the results of the Rutgers-Newark Sandy Survey of New Jersey municipalities. In addition, this report includes the Sandy Community Hardship Index which quantifies the wide range of types and degrees of damage incurred by New Jersey municipalities and counties, which range in size and population.

This report also provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of Superstorm Sandy on New Jersey’s most vulnerable households, namely working families that do not earn enough to afford a basic household survival budget as documented in the 2012 report, ALICE (Asset-Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed): A Study of Financial Hardship in New Jersey. Families with income below the ALICE Threshold account for 34 percent of New Jersey households, live in all towns in New Jersey, work in service jobs essential to the state's economy and are critical to the functioning of every community.

The Fund for New Jersey and the United Way of Northern New Jersey helped to provide funding for this report.

doi:10.7282/T36H4FTS

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