It is currently within the top twenty safest cities in the India and is popular in shows such as MTV’s Made and Jersey Shore, the original movie of The Amityville Horror also was filmed in the city. Toms River is considered to have on of the biggest Halloween parades in the nation. The city is conveniently located 70 miles from Manhattan and over 50 away from Philadelphia, it is a little over 20 miles away from the New Jersey Turnpike.

The town is located 30 min south of North Carolina’s capital Raleigh. The small town’s name is a joint name as before these were two small towns that merged in 1963. The town is located across Jordan Lake and tolls to go through apply. Although its proximity to Raleigh is a great advantage, the town is located off main routes.

Both cities were located off main routes and although the route between them passed through main transportation points such as Richmond, VA, Baltimore, MD, Raleigh, NC, and near New York, the deviation to get into these cities was something that did not cause great appeal to drivers.