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New Jersey's county names derive from several sources, though most of its counties are named after place names in England and prominent leaders in the colonial and revolutionary periods. Bergen County is the most populous county—as of the 2010 Census—with 905,116 people, while Salem County is the least populous with 66,083 people.
As of 2024, New Jersey is divided into 21 counties and contains 564 [2] municipalities consisting of five types: 253 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 240 townships, and four villages. The largest municipality by population in New Jersey is Newark, with 311,549 residents, whereas the smallest is Walpack Township, with seven residents. [3]
Local government in New Jersey is composed of counties and municipalities. Local jurisdictions in New Jersey differ from those in some other states because the entire area of the state is part of a municipality; each of the 564 municipalities is in exactly one county; and each of the 21 counties has more than one municipality.
The main article for this category is List of municipalities in New Jersey; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in New Jersey; See also New Jersey and categories Boroughs in New Jersey, Towns in New Jersey, Townships in New Jersey, Villages in New Jersey, Census-designated places in New Jersey, Unincorporated communities in New Jersey
Name County Population Municipal type Area Density; Camden Camden 77,344 city 8.92 8,670.85 Cherry Hill Camden 71,045 township 24.1 2,947.93 Gloucester Township Camden 64,634 township 22.98 2,812.62 Vineland Cumberland 60,724 city 68.42 887.52 Washington Township Gloucester 48,559 township 21.38 2,271.23 Evesham Township Burlington 45,538 ...
When Sussex County was created on June 8, 1753 from the northern and western regions of Morris County it consisted of the land area of present-day Sussex County and Warren County (created in 1824) in northwestern New Jersey. That county, from 1753 to 1824, comprised roughly 898.60 square miles (2,327.4 km 2), [a] was bounded by the Delaware ...
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Essex County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, and is one of the centrally located counties in the New York metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's second-most populous county, [7] with a population of 863,728, [5] [8] its highest decennial count since the 1970 census and an increase of 79,759 (+10.2%) from the 2010 census count of ...