Morristown No. 3 on list of drunkest cities in NJ

Morristown ranks third on a recently released list of the drunkest cities in New Jersey.

The Durham, N.C.-based Web site RoadSnacks compiled a list of the “drunkest“ cities in New Jersey with Atlantic City and Belmar tied for first and Morristown coming in behind them.

“Besides the sheer number of bars here, the drunk tweets coming from Morristown here way above average, including quite a few people talking drinking and driving -- while they were still driving apparently,” the site reported.

Among the Morris County towns on the list are Butler at number 6, which is 3 spots above Hoboken, and Wharton at number 20. Other Morris County towns on the list include Madison at 37, Dover at 41 and Morris Plains at 46. The neighboring towns of Hackettstown, which landed at 10 and Newton at 14, also made the list.

The criteria for finding the drunkest towns include the number of bars and pubs per capita; the number of wineries per capita; the number of liquor stores per capita; each city’s divorce rate (drunk people get divorced, they say); and each city’s drunk related tweets.

Butler was cited on the list because of its high divorce rate; 14.6 percent compared to say, 5.6 percent in Hoboken on 10 percent in Hackettstown.

Many of the top finishers on the list were Jersey Shore towns, including Red Bank at No. 4, (”For such a small place, Red Bank had a lot of drunk related Tweets. Lots of mentions of parties and drunken behavior.)

All this is meant to be taken with a grain of salt -- and not necessarily with a lime after a shot of tequila. RoadSnacks purports to “deliver infotainment about where you live that your real estate agent won’t tell you,” according to the Web site.

The list:

1. Atlantic City

(tie) Belmar

3. Morristown

4. Red Bank

5. Highlands

6. Butler

7. Asbury Park

8. Wildwood

9. Hoboken

10. Hackettstown

11. Paulsboro

12. Keyport

13. Burlington

14. Newton

15. Margate City

16. Phillipsburg

17. Matawan

18. Gloucester City

19. East Rutherford

20. Wharton

21. Edgewater

22. Penns Grove

23. Mount Arlington

24. Princeton

25. Kenilworth

26. Marlton

27. Clementon

28. Franklin

29. Hackensack

30. Jamesburg

31. Palmyra

32. Dunellen

33. Caldwell

34. Raritan

35. Forked River

36. Long Branch

37. Madison

38. Manasquan

39. Carlstadt

40. Hammonton

41. Dover

42. Bound Brook

43. Eatontown

44. Morris Plains

45. Freehold

46. Keansburg

47. Harrison

48. Ocean City

49. Lodi

50. Hightstown