How Close Are Somerset County Towns To 70% Of Adults Vaccinated?

SOMERSET COUNTY, NJ — Seventy percent is the magic number. It's the number of adults New Jersey wants fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by July 1, the amount President Joe Biden wants partially inoculated by July 4 and a figure Somerset County has not quite reached in its adult population.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 68.6 percent of the county's adult residents are fully vaccinated, and 83.2 percent have received at least one dose.

Somerset County as a whole is coming up short. The only town to hit the 70 percent benchmark is Far Hills.

Peapack-Gladstone Borough and Manville Borough both have the lowest numbers in the county.

Here's the breakdown of what percentage of adults in each Somerset County town have received at least one dose and how many are fully vaccinated:

• Bedminster Township: 67 percent, 60 percent
• Bernards Township: 70 percent, 63 percent
• Bernardsville Borough: 67 percent, 59 percent
• Bound Brook Borough: 60 percent, 50 percent
• Branchburg Township: 62 percent, 55 percent
• Bridgewater Township: 69 percent, 61 percent
• Green Brook Township: 61 percent, 55 percent
• Far Hills Borough: 81 percent, 70 percent
• Franklin Township: 67 percent, 58 percent
• Hillsborough Township: 68 percent, 60 percent
• Manville Borough: 56 percent, 48 percent
• Millstone Borough: 63 percent, 56 percent
• Montgomery Township: 73 percent, 65 percent
• North Plainfield Borough: 58 percent, 50 percent
• Peapack-Gladstone Borough: 55 percent, 49 percent
• Raritan Borough: 68 percent, 59 percent
• Rocky Hill Borough: 76 percent, 67 percent
• Somerville Borough: 63 percent, 54 percent
• South Bound Brook Borough: 60 percent, 52 percent
• Warren Township: 66 percent, 60 percent
• Watchung Borough: 69 percent, 63 percent

New Jersey reached the milestone of 4.7 million people fully vaccinated last Friday. The New Jersey Department of Health has logged 4.86 million people fully inoculated as of Friday morning. The state is also on the verge of passing a six-month goal of getting 70 percent of all adults — also 4.7 million people — fully vaccinated, Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday.

— With reporting by Josh Bakan

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