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Riding in Kingwood Township

Hunterdon County · 3,802 residents

From the centre of Kingwood Township, a pedal-assist e-bike legally reaches 95% of the points surveyed on rings 2, 5 and 10 miles out; a low-speed 50cc scooter reaches 25%. When the e-bike is routed to prefer the lowest-speed roads and paths, 84% of those route miles stay on them. Statewide the same three numbers run 98%, 16% and 60%.

of surveyed ring points reachable on a low-speed 50cc scooter (state median 16%)
25%
of the same points reachable on a pedal-assist e-bike (state median 98%)
95%
of the quiet-preferring e-bike route on the lowest-speed roads and paths (state median 60%)
84%
people on the connected legal low-speed network this town centre attaches to
8,362

Ring by ring

The survey drops 12 evenly spaced points on each ring around the town centre and keeps the ones that land near a road. The middle column is how many points that was on the e-bike network — the sample size behind the shares beside it, so a thin ring is visible rather than hidden in an average.

Reach and quiet-route share at each survey ring
RingOn a roadScooterE-bikeQuiet
2 mi out10 of 1244%90%81%
5 mi out12 of 128%100%88%
10 mi out12 of 120%100%84%

Reach counts a point as reached when a legal route exists inside the survey’s horizon and is not wildly indirect. A ring can read lower than the ring outside it — the legal network is fragmented, so distance and reach are not the same question.

The legal network Kingwood Township sits on

New Jersey’s roads that a low-speed 50cc scooter may legally use break into 13,308 disconnected pieces. Kingwood Township’s centre attaches to one carrying 2 municipalities and about 8,362 people, the 148th largest in the state. What a scooter or an e-bike may ride is set by state rules rather than by this survey; those are laid out on the New Jersey rules page.

See Kingwood Township on the map

Both links open the live map centred on the town and draw everything reachable within 10 miles of riding — the outermost survey ring — on that vehicle’s network.

Nearest towns with a page

The closest municipalities in this pilot, by distance between town centres. Neighbouring towns often sit on different legal networks, so the numbers can diverge sharply over a few miles.

MunicipalityScooterE-bikeQuiet
Lambertville9 mi64%100%73%
Phillipsburg16 mi32%100%77%
Califon Borough18 mi57%96%81%
Ewing Township19 mi0%100%62%

All 46 towns in the pilot — a first set, selected by rule from the 419 municipalities whose survey rings carry enough road points to publish. More follow.

Questions about riding in Kingwood Township

The short versions of what's above, answered from this town's own survey numbers.

How far can a 50cc scooter ride from Kingwood Township?
Of the surveyed points on rings 2, 5 and 10 miles out, a low-speed 50cc scooter can legally reach 25% of the ones that land on a road — against a statewide median of 16%. That is a measure of the legal network's shape around Kingwood Township, not of distance a scooter can travel: the limit is which roads connect, not the tank.
Is an e-bike a better way to get around Kingwood Township?
By reach, yes: a pedal-assist e-bike reaches 95% of the same points, because it may use paths and the faster roads New Jersey's low-speed-scooter rules keep off. Statewide the median town goes from 16% on a scooter to 98% on an e-bike.
How quiet are the e-bike routes around Kingwood Township?
When the router is told to prefer the lowest-speed roads and paths, 84% of the resulting route miles from Kingwood Township stay on them, against a statewide median of 60%. It is a low-speed measure of the routing available — never a scenic, road-condition or comfort rating.
What legal network is Kingwood Township connected to?
Kingwood Township's town centre attaches to a connected component of legal low-speed roads covering 2 municipalities and about 8,362 people, the 148th largest in the state. New Jersey's legal low-speed network is split into thousands of pieces, so which piece a town sits on decides how far a ride can go without leaving it.

Where the numbers come from

This page is generated from the committed statewide survey behind the dead-zone atlas — a frozen, reproducible snapshot rather than a live feed. It measures legality and low-speed routing only, never road condition, scenery or comfort.

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