Ras Baraka (Democratic) has been Mayor of Newark since 1 Jul 2014. In Aug 2026 the unemployment rate was 7.0% of the labour force, 3.0 percentage points lower than when Ras Baraka took office in July 2014, while New Jersey's fell 2.3 percentage points. Among the 106 cities with a year or more of figures, Newark ranks 15th on the fall in violent crime and 62nd of 73 on GDP per person. Over the same months New Jersey's population edged up 0.7% a year; Newark's rose 1.2%. Homelessness is 77.2 people per 10,000 (2024), 24 per 10,000 above its level at day zero.

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