A fresh study by SmartAsset puts two New Jersey towns in the top 20 safest suburbs across America. The research, which checked 360 areas near big cities, ranks Edgewater at 8th and Fort Lee at 18th. In Edgewater, where 14,544 folks call home, attacks stayed rare at 0.0006 per person. Like Edgewater, road deaths stayed at 4.3982 per 100,000 folks. While attacks went up from 198 to 231, break-ins dropped from 733 to 706.