New Jersey Bed Bug Report (2026)
Exclusive Data: Where Bed Bugs Are Showing Up in New Jersey
Bed bugs don’t care how nice your home is.
They can hitch rides on luggage, used furniture, and clothing. Using unique local service data collected by Green Pest Solutions, we identified the New Jersey towns reporting the highest rates of bed bug activity. These insights can help homeowners, travelers, property managers, and local businesses plan ahead and know where extra precautions may be helpful.
New Jersey bed bug hotspots
| # | Town | Compared to a typical area | Reports per 10,000 homes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phillipsburg | 5.6× more | 13.2 |
| 2 | Sicklerville | 3.8× more | 9.0 |
| 3 | Trenton | 3.7× more | 8.7 |
| 4 | Williamstown | 3.4× more | 8.1 |
| 5 | Clementon | 3.2× more | 7.6 |
Phillipsburg tops the list. Bed bug reports there occur about 5.6× more often per home than in a typical area across our service region.
The further above 1× (typical) a town sits, the more bed bug activity our local service data shows. This information can help you plan travel, property inspections, tenant education, and prevention efforts. Even if your town is not listed, the habits below can reduce your risk of bringing bed bugs home.
Signs to watch for
- Bites in a line or cluster: Small, itchy marks that often appear on skin exposed while you sleep.
- Rust-colored or dark spots: Look closely at sheets, mattress seams, and box springs.
- Tiny pale eggs or shed skins: These may be tucked into seams, headboards, and cracks.
- A musty, sweet odor: This can sometimes be present when an infestation is more severe.
- The bugs themselves: Bed bugs are flat, reddish-brown, and about the size of an apple seed.
How to avoid bringing them home
- In hotels, check mattress seams and behind the headboard. Keep your luggage on a rack and off the bed and floor.
- After traveling, unpack away from the bedroom and run your clothes through a hot dryer for at least 30 minutes.
- With secondhand furniture, inspect seams and joints closely before bringing anything inside, especially mattresses and upholstered pieces.
- Reduce clutter near beds so bed bugs have fewer places to hide.
- Act early. A quick inspection can help prevent a small problem from becoming a full infestation.
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About this unique local data
These rankings come from actual bed bug service requests received by Green Pest Solutions through July 2026. Requests were grouped by service ZIP code and adjusted using U.S. Census home counts so towns of different sizes could be compared fairly. The “× more than a typical area” figure compares each town’s report rate with the average across our service region.
To make the results more reliable and useful for planning, the ranking includes only towns with at least 8 bed bug reports and 5,000 residents. Some smaller communities are not included because there was not enough data to make a meaningful comparison.
Bed bugs can appear anywhere, and activity can change over time. Use this exclusive local data as a planning and prevention tool, not as a guarantee that a particular property has or does not have bed bugs.
This data is proprietary to Green Pest Solutions and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, published, or used without prior written consent.
