Bottom line: Morris County is wealthy, well-educated, and roughly 69% White overall — but diversity is wildly uneven across its 39 towns. The split is geographic and economic: a dense, working-class Latino corridor in the center (Dover, Victory Gardens, Wharton), an affluent Asian-heavy belt to the east (Parsippany), and largely homogeneous, high-income townships in the west and south.
The tension worth knowing: the most demographically diverse towns and the top-rated school districts are almost never the same place. Diversity here tracks income, and school rankings track income even harder — so the trade-off between a mixed community and a top-10 district is real and structural, not incidental.
Two different things get called "diversity," and they don't rank the same. Even mix (no single group dominates) favors Parsippany. Distance from the county's White-majority baseline favors the Latino-majority towns. Both readings are below.
| Town | Largest group | White | Hispanic | Asian | Black | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsippany-Troy Hills | Asian (45%) | 37% | 10% | 45% | 5% | Most balanced |
| Dover | Hispanic (~75%) | 21% | 75% | 2% | 6% | Latino-majority |
| Victory Gardens | Hispanic (~75–80%) | 11% | ~78% | 3% | 6–9% | Latino-majority |
| Wharton | Hispanic / White mix | ~57% | 49% | 5% | 3% | Mixed |
| Morristown | White plurality | ~55% | ~30% | ~4% | ~9% | Mixed urban |
| Mount Olive | White (62%) | 62% | 18% | 9% | ~5% | Moderate |
| Randolph | White majority | ~68% | ~10% | ~15% | ~3% | Moderate |
| Roxbury Township | White (71–73%) | 72% | 14% | 5% | 4% | Low-moderate |
Figures are rounded ACS / Census estimates (2020–2024 vintage, sources vary slightly by town). Hispanic is an ethnicity and overlaps with race categories, so rows won't sum to 100%. "Some Other Race" is large in Dover/Victory Gardens — a known artifact of how many Latino respondents self-classify.
Morris County schools punch well above state averages — county math proficiency runs ~54% vs ~38% statewide, reading ~65% vs ~49%. But the spread inside the county is steep. Below: a tiered read combining Niche grades and state proficiency data.
| District | Tier | Niche | Signal | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Lakes | Top | A+ | Elite | #1 district in county; tiny, affluent |
| Chathams (School Dist. of) | Top | A+ | Elite | Consistently top-5 statewide |
| Mendham / Mendham Twp. | Top | A+ | Elite | Mendham Twp Middle = county #1 school |
| Montville Township | Top | A | Strong | Deep bench of A-rated elementaries |
| Madison | Top | A+ | Strong | Walkable, college-town profile |
| Acad. for Math, Sci & Eng (MCVSD) | Top | A+ | #1 HS in NJ | Selective magnet, county vocational |
| Randolph | High | A | Strong | Larger, more mixed than the elite tier |
| East Hanover / Florham Park | High | A− | Strong | Top-20% statewide K-8 feeders |
| Morris School District (Morristown) | Mid | B+/A− | Mixed | ~#65 in NJ; most diverse of the strong ones |
| Parsippany-Troy Hills | Mid | B+/A− | Solid | Good schools + the most diverse town |
| Mount Olive | Mid | B+ | Average+ | Large, middle-of-county outcomes |
| Roxbury Township | Mid | A− / B | Split signal | HS rates A−; district ranks low on math — see §04 |
| Wharton | Lower | B/B− | Below county | K-8; sends to Morris Hills HS |
| Dover | Lower | C+ | Lowest tier | Highest-need, lowest-rated in county |
Grades blend Niche 2025–26 letter grades with NJDOE proficiency data. "Bad" here means relative to an unusually strong county — a C+ district in Morris is roughly state-average, not catastrophic. Magnet/vocational options (MCVSD) sit outside town-of-residence and are open to qualifying students countywide.
Bottom line: Roxbury is a high-income (~$130K median), 72%-White township on the county's western edge — not one of Morris County's diverse towns, but not its most homogeneous either. Its school district is the interesting part: it looks strong from the top and weak from the middle, and which number you trust changes the whole picture.
~23,400 residents. Roughly 72% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, ~5% two-or-more. Median household income ~$130K–$134K, poverty under 4%. Older-skewing (median age ~43). Translation: affluent, family-heavy, modestly Latino — diversity sits well below Parsippany or Dover but above the elite western townships.
On diversity, Roxbury lands in the low-moderate band — comparable to Mount Olive and Randolph, far from the Latino corridor (Dover/Wharton) it physically borders. The contrast with adjacent Wharton (49% Hispanic) and Dover (75%) is stark for towns this close together — an income line, not a map line.
What that means in practice, depending on what you're optimizing for:
Roxbury figures: World Population Review / NJ-Demographics (2025–26 vintage) for race & income; Niche 2025–26 for school grades; SchoolDigger 2024–25 for district rank; NJDOE proficiency. The high-school-vs-district gap is the single most important thing to verify yourself before deciding — pull both the school and district reports.
Parsippany and Morristown / Morris School District are the rare both-boxes-checked options: genuine demographic mix and solid-to-good districts. Parsippany is the cleanest answer if you want diversity without sacrificing school quality.
Dover, Victory Gardens, and Wharton are the most demographically distinct towns but carry the county's lowest-rated, highest-need schools. The same income gradient that produces the diversity also constrains the schools.
Mountain Lakes, the Chathams, Mendham, Montville — the elite districts — are also the Whitest and most homogeneous. High price of entry filters the population before the school does.
The Academy for Math, Science & Engineering (county vocational, #1 HS in NJ) decouples the two: a top-tier, more merit-mixed student body open countywide. The exception that proves the income rule.
Note on method: town demographic figures are rounded estimates and differ modestly between Census vintages and aggregators (CensusDots, BestNeighborhood, World Population Review). School "tiers" combine third-party letter grades with state proficiency data and are directional, not a single official ranking. Diversity is reported here as racial/ethnic composition; economic and linguistic diversity would shift some placements. Verify any decision-critical number against the primary NJDOE and Census sources linked above.