Built for Lead-Free NJ and its members

New Jersey's lead is in its old houses. Here is where, and a free way to find it.

Your members walk into these homes every week. This shows where the risk concentrates across the state, lets anyone check a ZIP in seconds, and puts a kit in a family's hands that makes lead paint and dust light up green. No cost to your network.

Where the risk is, county by county

Every New Jersey county, shaded by its lead-exposure risk score. Darker means older housing and tighter budgets, the two things that put lead in kids. Even the lightest county here is high. Hover or tap one to see it.

 
 
 
 
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Highest-need counties, where to start
Score blends Census housing age (share built before 1978) and poverty. It is a screen for where to look, not a test of any one home.
Click any county to drop into its real homes, one parcel at a time, colored by the year they were built →
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Pre-1950 1950–1977 1978 or newer year not recorded
Every shape is a real parcel from New Jersey's statewide property records. Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, hover a home for its address and age. Many older records leave the build year blank, shown in gray.
Where this map comes from

I built a model that predicts childhood lead-exposure risk down to the neighborhood, from housing age and Census poverty, and checked it against measured childhood blood-lead in eleven states. It holds up. The model, its code, and the validation data are openly published, and the full write-up is under review at AGU's GeoHealth journal. The lookup below is that model, made usable. Paired with a kit that makes lead glow in an actual home, you go from a map to a confirmed hazard in a single visit.

Check any New Jersey ZIP

Housing age and Census poverty, combined into a lead-risk read for the area. Real records, not a guess.

Area-level screen from ACS housing-age (B25034) and poverty (S1701). It flags where lead is likely, it does not test any one home. That is what the kit is for.

It is already this bad in the cities your members serve

Camden
ZIP 08103
100
3,084 of 5,384 homes from the lead-paint era
Trenton
ZIP 08609
91
3,226 of 5,347 homes pre-1980
Orange
ZIP 07050
70
6,249 of 13,412 homes pre-1980
Newark
ZIP 07103
41
3,140 lead-era homes, 32% poverty

What we are offering your network

Free Fluoro-Spec kits to put in the hands of your members and the families they serve. You spray a painted surface or settled dust, shine a UV light, and any lead glows bright green in seconds. It reads on a windowsill, a porch, a dish, a toy, or paint chips. A home visitor, a WIC nurse, or a parent at the kitchen table can run it off a one-page card.

30,000+
kits already sold to families
1,000
bought by Columbus Public Health to give away
100
donated to PA's Lead-Free Promise Project, now going out statewide

This is not a prototype. It is a shipping product that public health programs are already buying and handing out. We would rather your members have it for free.

Two ways to run it, your call

Tracked kits

Every kit carries a code. Families report what they found, and you see the picture build across your territory: where the glows are, who wants a follow-up. A live map of the lead in your network.

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Just the kits and the info

No portal, no tracking, no strings. We ship kits and the field cards to you, you distribute them your way, and we send along the research and the how-to. Simple.

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Either way it is free, and we will customize it to however Lead-Free NJ wants to run it.

Start the conversation

Goes straight to Eric Ritter, who makes the kits. No list, no spam.

What the kit is, and is not

Fluoro-Spec is a fast field screen that makes lead visible. It is not an EPA-recognized test kit, and it is not a replacement for XRF or for lab dust-wipe clearance where those are legally required. A glow, or the absence of one, is a field indication, not a lab result. Its purpose is to find the likely lead first, so limited inspector and lab time goes to the homes that need it. More on how that compares to the RRP cleaning card.

Area risk from U.S. Census ACS housing age (table B25034) and poverty (S1701), weighted by national lead-based-paint prevalence by housing era. Method and validation: detectlead.com/lead-validation.

Fluoro-Spec · Eric Ritter · detectlead.com · eric@detectlead.com · 631-461-1838