State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in New Jersey

Coverage: 3 of 21 counties · Camden, Monmouth, Sussex · more coming

GradeLocal lists 6,294 New Jersey restaurants. Their average score is 94.3, an A. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

6,294restaurants listed

94.3 · Aaverage score

3counties covered

Oct 30, 2026latest inspection date

See every New Jersey grade

Who inspects restaurants in New Jersey

Camden, Monmouth and Sussex county health departments. Results are Satisfactory, Conditionally Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory.

Coverage: Camden, Monmouth and Sussex, 3 of 21 counties. All sources

What New Jersey publishes

The agencies behind our New Jersey listings publish pass or fail results. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every New Jersey score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades New Jersey restaurants

For pass or fail results, a pass is an A, a pass with conditions or a required reinspection is a C, and a fail or a closure is a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our New Jersey data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
Satisfactory	A	6,108
Conditionally Satisfactory	C	176
Unsatisfactory	D	9
Unsatisfactory	A	1

How New Jersey restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 6,294 listings.

6,109

97.1% · grade A

0.0% · grade B

176

2.8% · grade C

0.1% · grade D

Inspection dates in our New Jersey data run from Nov 19, 2015 to Oct 30, 2026. 4,338 of the 6,294 listings (68.9%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 30, 2026, our latest record. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in New Jersey

Every A-grade place in our New Jersey data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in New Jersey

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Camden County	2,959	94.1 · A
Monmouth County	2,315	94.4 · A
Sussex County	1,020	94.6 · A

Questions about New Jersey grades

Who inspects restaurants in New Jersey?

Camden, Monmouth and Sussex county health departments. Results are Satisfactory, Conditionally Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory.

What does New Jersey publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in New Jersey?

For pass or fail results, a pass is an A, a pass with conditions or a required reinspection is a C, and a fail or a closure is a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many New Jersey restaurants are on GradeLocal?

6,294 restaurants in 3 counties. The average score is 94.3, an A. 97.1% have an A.

How current are the New Jersey grades?

Inspection dates in our New Jersey data run from Nov 19, 2015 to Oct 30, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.