Score formula (priced listings): price vs your cap 32% · $/bedroom 10% · drive to work 22% · nearest anchor shul 14% · nearest kosher market 10% · amenities up to 12 pts · penalties for very-small / singles-only / basement / 55+ risk / late availability. Lakewood market averages used for "vs market": 1BR ≈ $1,771 · 2BR ≈ $2,144 · 3BR ≈ $2,700.
Shul layer & orientation. Built from GoDaven's Lakewood minyan database: 281 shuls catalogued — 277 Ashkenazi (247 Litvish + 30 chassidish) and only 4 excluded (2 Sephardi/Edot-Mizrach, 2 Chabad/Lubavitch). Per your rule, chassidish counts as Ashkenazi; only Sephardi and Chabad/Lubavitch are excluded. Map shows the geocodable subset (54 pinned) — gold ✡ = Litvish, purple ✡ = chassidish, red ✡ = excluded (off by default). 🚶 Walk time is straight-line × 1.25 at 3 mph to the nearest Ashkenazi shul (approximate). Because Lakewood is so dense, every in-town block has an Ashkenazi minyan within a few minutes — the mapped set is a sample, not all 277. "Call for price" pins (gray) match your size but have no published rent. Street View is the live Google embed; for ≈ pins it shows the general block.