Firsthand
A major destination for recent immigrants from India, the low-rise apartments of Hilltop & Trafalgar are bursting with energy and personality. If you were to take a walk through Hilltop & Trafalgar, you’d see many things to appreciate - neighbours chatting on the balconies and in the parking lots, children playing, and many walking to and from the shops, bus-stops, and railways nearby. To many from India, this place is home - community, conversation, and culture. With all the challenges of living in a new part of the world, the best way to describe Hilltop & Trafalgar is quite simply that “this is home.”

The Landscape
Patch size: 1100 by 1600 feet.

• 900 units in about 35 low-rise apartment buildings
• Rent ranges from $875/month for a one-bedroom unit to $1,195/month for a two-bedroom unit (the average for all units in Edison is $1,297/month¹)
• Located on the border of Edison and Iselin, just west of Wood Avenue and south of Oak Tree Road
• Close to the Garden State Parkway, Rt. 1, Rt. 27, and Metropark train station
• Part of the Downtown Neighborhood
• A YMCA and Jewish Community Center are located about half a mile away, west on Oak Tree Road

The People
In the wider neighborhood where this patch is located1:

• The population density is 4,857 people per mi² as compared with 3,243/ mi² in the rest of Edison and 1,176/mi² in the rest of New Jersey
• 37% of the people are immigrants

The Challenge
Would you be willing to give up some personal comfort in order to learn more about other cultures and share the boundary-breaking love of the Lord Jesus? Will you move in?

Source
¹www.city-data.com