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Location	State of New Jersey
Number	21
Populations	65,046 (Salem) – 953,819 (Bergen)
Areas	47 square miles (120 km2) (Hudson) – 805 square miles (2,080 km2) (Burlington)
Government	County government
Subdivisions	borough, city, town, township, village

There are 21 counties in New Jersey. These counties together contain 565 municipalities, or administrative entities composed of clearly defined territory; 250 boroughs, 52 cities, 15 towns, 244 townships, and 4 villages.[1] In New Jersey, a county is a local level of government between the state and municipalities. County government in New Jersey includes a Board of County Commissioners,[2] sheriff, clerk, and surrogate (responsible for uncontested and routine probate),[3] all of which are elected officials. Counties organized under the Optional County Charter Law may also have an elected county executive.[4] Counties traditionally perform state-mandated duties such as the maintenance of jails, parks, and certain roads.[5] The site of a county's administration and courts is called the county seat.

History[edit]

New Jersey was governed by two groups of proprietors as two distinct provinces, East Jersey and West Jersey, between 1674 and 1702. New Jersey's first counties were created as administrative districts within each province, with East Jersey split in 1675 into Bergen, Essex, Middlesex and Monmouth counties, while West Jersey's initial counties of Burlington and Salem date to 1681.[6][7] The most recent county created in New Jersey is Union County, created in 1857 and named after the union of the United States when the Civil War was imminent. 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.

Representation in the New Jersey Legislature[edit]

Interactive map of counties in NJ

Until the 1960s, the New Jersey Senate had 21 representatives, one from each county regardless of population. In the wake of the 1964 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Reynolds v. Sims, establishing the one man, one vote principle that state legislative districts must be approximately equal in size, David Friedland filed suit in New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of two union leaders, challenging a system under which each county was represented by a single member in the New Jersey Senate. The senate enacted a proposal whereby each senator's vote would be weighted based on the population of the county represented, under which Cape May County's senator would receive one vote while the senator from Essex County would receive 19.1, in direct relation to the ratio of residents between counties.[8] In a decision issued on December 15, 1964, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the weighted voting system as adopted was unconstitutional. The court ordered that interim measures be established for the 1965 legislative elections, in which weighted voting could be used as a temporary measure, and that the needed constitutional changes to restructure the New Jersey Legislature to be in compliance with "one man, one vote" requirements be in place before elections took place in 1967.[8] The legislature's final decision was to establish 40 districts statewide, each represented by one senator and two assembly members, without relation to county boundaries.

FIPS code[edit]

The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the United States government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for New Jersey the codes start with 34 and are completed with the three-digit county code. The FIPS code for each county in the table links to census data for that county.[9]

NJ Counties by Population, with darker colors indicating a higher population, from the 2020 census

List of counties[edit]

County	FIPS code[9]	County seat[10]	Largest City[11]	Est.[10]	Formed from[6][7]	Named for[12]	Density (per mi2)	Pop.[13]	Area[10]
Atlantic County	001	Mays Landing	Egg Harbor Township 47,842	1837	Gloucester County	The Atlantic Ocean, which forms the county's eastern border	490.14	274,966	561 sq mi (1,453 km2)
Bergen County	003	Hackensack	Hackensack 46,030	1683	One of four original counties created in East Jersey	Bergen, New Netherland settlement	4,076.15	953,819	234 sq mi (606 km2)
Burlington County	005	Mount Holly	Evesham Township 46,826	1694	One of two original counties created in West Jersey	The old ancient name for an inland market near Bridlington, England	576.73	464,269	805 sq mi (2,085 km2)
Camden County	007	Camden	Cherry Hill 74,553	1844	Gloucester County	Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714–1794), an English supporter of the colonists during the American Revolution[14]	2,359.33	523,771	222 sq mi (575 km2)
Cape May County	009	Cape May Court House	Lower Township 22,057	1692	Burlington County	The 17th-century Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, who explored and surveyed the Delaware Bay to the south of the county	375.14	95,661	255 sq mi (660 km2)
Cumberland County	011	Bridgeton	Vineland 60,780	1748	Salem County	Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721–1765), second son of George II of Great Britain and military victor at the Battle of Culloden in 1746	314.17	153,627	489 sq mi (1,267 km2)
Essex County	013	Newark	Newark 311,549	1683	One of four original counties created in East Jersey	The county of Essex in England	6,785.06	854,917	126 sq mi (326 km2)
Gloucester County	015	Woodbury	Washington Township 48,677	1686	Burlington County	The city of Gloucester, England	936.85	304,477	325 sq mi (842 km2)
Hudson County	017	Jersey City	Jersey City 292,449	1840	Bergen County	The English explorer Henry Hudson (d. 1611), who explored portions of New Jersey's coastline	14,946.02	702,463	47 sq mi (122 km2)
Hunterdon County	019	Flemington	Raritan Township 23,447	1714	Burlington County	Robert Hunter (1664–1734), the Colonial Governor of New Jersey from 1710 to 1720	302.15	129,924	430 sq mi (1,114 km2)
Mercer County	021	Trenton	Hamilton Township 92,297	1838	Burlington County, Hunterdon County, Middlesex County, and Somerset County	The Continental Army General Hugh Mercer (1726–1777), who died at the Battle of Princeton[15]	1,707.51	385,898	226 sq mi (585 km2)
Middlesex County	023	New Brunswick	Edison 107,588	1683	One of four original counties created in East Jersey	The historic county of Middlesex in England	2,767.87	860,807	311 sq mi (805 km2)
Monmouth County	025	Freehold Borough	Middletown Township 67,106	1683	One of four original counties created in East Jersey	The historic county of Monmouthshire in Wales	1,367.28	645,354	472 sq mi (1,222 km2)
Morris County	027	Morristown	Parsippany-Troy Hills 56,162	1739	Hunterdon County	Colonel Lewis Morris (1671–1746), colonial governor of New Jersey at the time of the county's formation[16][17]	1,089.51	510,981	469 sq mi (1,215 km2)
Ocean County	029	Toms River	Lakewood Township 135,158	1850	Monmouth County and Burlington County	The Atlantic Ocean, which forms the eastern border of New Jersey	1,020.44	648,998	636 sq mi (1,647 km2)
Passaic County	031	Paterson	Paterson 159,732	1837	Bergen County and Essex County	"Pasaeck", a Lenape word meaning "valley"	2,800.63	518,117	185 sq mi (479 km2)
Salem County	033	Salem	Pennsville Township 12,684	1694	One of two original counties created in West Jersey	A Hebrew word meaning "peace"	193.51	65,046	338 sq mi (875 km2)
Somerset County	035	Somerville	Franklin Township 68,364	1688	Middlesex County	The county of Somerset in England	1,133.27	345,647	305 sq mi (790 km2)
Sussex County	037	Newton	Vernon Township 22,358	1753	Morris County	The county of Sussex in England	279.35	145,543	521 sq mi (1,349 km2)
Union County	039	Elizabeth	Elizabeth 137,298	1857	Essex County	The union of the United States, which was being threatened by the dispute over slavery	5,554.50	572,114	103 sq mi (267 km2)
Warren County	041	Belvidere	Phillipsburg 15,249	1824	Sussex County	The American Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren (1741–1775), killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill	309.30	110,731	358 sq mi (927 km2)

References[edit]

^ "New Jersey – Place and County Subdivision". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on November 22, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
^ Coppa, Frank J. (2000). County government: a guide to efficient and accountable government. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 39–40. ISBN 978-0-275-96829-8. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
^ Coppa, County government, p. 165 Archived 2014-07-05 at the Wayback Machine
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^ "An Overview of County Government". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on April 17, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
^ a b "County Formation Map" (PDF). New Jersey Association of Election Officials. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-24. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
^ a b Torp, Kim (2006). "New Jersey County Formation". Genealogy Trails. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
^ a b Wright, George Cable (December 16, 1964). "Weighted Voting Voided in Jersey; State's Highest Court Bars Senate's Plan – No Ruling on Its Constitutionality New Jersey Supreme Court Bars Senate's Weighted Vote Plan". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
^ a b "County FIPS Code Listing for the State of New Jersey". US Environmental Protection Agency. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
^ a b c "NACo – Find a county". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on January 12, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2008.
^ "Population Density by County and Municipality: New Jersey, 2010 and 2017" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Health. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 19, 2020. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
^ Hutchinson, Viola L. The Origin of New Jersey Place Names Archived 2015-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed November 14, 2015.
^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: New Jersey". Archived from the original on 2021-10-24. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
^ Greenberg, Gail (August 30, 2009). "A Brief History of Camden County". Camden County Board of Freeholders. Archived from the original on June 23, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
^ "History". Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission. Archived from the original on February 21, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
^ "The Land Past and Present". Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders. Archived from the original on August 22, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
^ "How did our county get its name?". Morris County Library. July 26, 2008. Archived from the original on February 23, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2009.

External links[edit]

2010 Census: New Jersey Profile

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