Somerset is an unincorporated community within Franklin Township in Somerset County, central New Jersey, and the directory tracks the area as if it were a small city in its own right. Our listings here total 1,114 across eight ZIP codes.
The category mix reads as a dense, professionally inclined suburb. Restaurants lead at 92, with salons at 49 and churches at 45. Real estate comes in at 34, and the more telling numbers are the 30 dentists and the 23 social-services listings. That ratio of clinical and human-services density per capita runs higher than most New Jersey suburbs of comparable size, and it tracks the area's demographic mix.
Franklin Township and the surrounding Somerset County corridor have absorbed a significant share of central New Jersey's South Asian and Asian American population growth over the last two decades. The Indian and Indo-Caribbean commercial corridor along Easton Avenue and Hamilton Street has built up an unusual layer of specialty restaurants, grocers, jewelers, and clinical practices that doesn't show up in surrounding municipalities. Several of the dental and medical practices in the listings serve specific community segments and operate on weekend and evening schedules that more standard suburban offices don't.
Landmarks at 26 and community centers at 19 reflect both the township's civic infrastructure and the Rutgers University campus that sits along the Raritan River to the north. The university's presence pulls a layer of demand that pure-residential suburbs typically lack, including a steadier rental market and a layer of professional-services firms geared to academic and research employers.
New Jersey licenses home-improvement contractors through the Division of Consumer Affairs and trade-specific work through separate boards. Dental practitioners are licensed through the State Board of Dentistry. Verify the license at the relevant board before signing anything substantial.
The geography matters here. Somerset is closer to New Brunswick and Rutgers than to Somerville, the actual county seat, and the directory reflects that orientation. Pricing in Franklin Township generally runs at or slightly above the central New Jersey median across most home-services categories.