Bergen County

administration
Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack, listed on NRHP No. 83001468
US state :	New Jersey
Administrative headquarters :	Hoe sack
Foundation :	March 7, 1683
Made up from:	East Jersey
Area code :	+1 201
Demographics
Residents :	905.116 (2010)
Population density :	1,493.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	639 km²
Water surface :	33 km²
map

Website : www.co.bergen.nj.us

Bergen County is a county in the state of New Jersey . The county seat is Hackensack . Bergen County is New Jersey's most populous county and is heavily urbanized in the eastern part. It belongs to the metropolitan area of New York City and is directly adjacent to Manhattan .

history

Bergen County was founded in 1683 as part of East Jersey Territory . From 1894 to 1938, the county was served by a network of overland trams , which was gradually replaced by bus routes from the 1920s.

Four places in the county have National Historic Landmark status . A total of 272 buildings and sites in the county are registered on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 16, 2018).

geography

The county has an area of 639 square kilometers, of which 33 square kilometers are water. Bergen County is bordered to the north by Rockland County ( New York ), to the east by the Hudson River , to the south by Hudson County and Essex Counties, and to the west by Passaic County .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	12,601	-
1800	15,156	20.3%
1810	16.603	9.5%
1820	18,178	9.5%
1830	22,412	23.3%
1840	13,223	-41%
1850	14,725	11.4%
1860	21,618	46.8%
1870	30,122	39.3%
1880	36,786	22.1%
1890	47,226	28.4%
1900	78,441	66.1%
1910	138.002	75.9%
1920	210.703	52.7%
1930	364,977	73.2%
1940	409,646	12.2%
1950	539.139	31.6%
1960	780.255	44.7%
1970	897.148	15%
1980	845.385	-5.8%
1990	825.380	-2.4%
2000	884.118	7.1%
2010	905.116	2.4%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Bergen County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Lake Kanawauke in Harriman State Park

According to the 2000 census , the county had a population of 884,118 people. There were 330,817 households and 235,210 families. The population density was 1,458 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 78.41% White , 5.27% African American , 0.15% American Indian , 10.67% Asian American , 0.02% Pacific Islander, and 3.22% from other races ; 2.26% were from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos were 10.34% of the population .

Of the 330,817 households, 32.10% had children and adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 57.90% were married couples living together, 9.70% were single mothers. 28.90% were not families. 24.70% were single households and 10.20% had someone living there who was 65 years of age or over. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.17.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 23.00% residents under 18 years of age, 6.60% between 18 and 24 years of age, 30.60% between 25 and 44 years of age, 24.50% between 45 and 64 years of age 15.20% were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 92.80 males, and for every 100 females aged 18 and over there were 89.40 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 65,241 , and the median income for a family is $ 78,079. Males had a median income of $ 51,346 versus $ 37,295 for females. The per capita income was $ 33,638. 5.00% of the population and 3.40% of families are below the poverty line. 4.90% of them were under 18 years of age and 5.90% were 65 years of age or older.

Cities and towns

The district of Bergen consists of 70 municipalities:

36 municipalities have more than ten thousand, twelve of them more than 20,000 inhabitants. The following municipalities have special features:

With 42,677 inhabitants (2000 census), Hackensack is the largest city in terms of inhabitants and at the same time the administrative seat of the district authority. The city has been a twin town of Passau (Germany) since 1952 . The sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder , who was born in Hackensack, ran one of the most famous and sought-after recording studios in the United States in the 1950s, before moving to Englewood Cliffs in 1959 . In New York colloquial language, “I'm not from Hackensack” means something like “I'm not stupid”.

In the second largest city in the county, Teaneck (39,260 pop. 2000), racially integrated schools were first introduced in the United States in 1965 by a white majority.

Between 1900 and 1920, Fort Lee , the third largest community in the county with a population of 35,461 , was the "film capital" of the USA until it was replaced by Hollywood in the middle of the silent film era. The community was named after the American general Charles Lee , an opponent of George Washington . Fort Lee played an important military role at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War .

Englewood (seventh largest parish with 26,203 inhabitants) was the birthplace of John Travolta and Anne Morrow Lindbergh .

Gertrude Ederle was born in Wyckoff Township in 1906 , the first woman to swim the English Channel .

The Alpine Tower FM transmitter is located in Alpine , the third smallest municipality with 2,183 inhabitants .

The Teterboro Regional Airport , which employs over 1,000 people, is located in Borough Teterboro, which is just 2.9 km² in size . Its area takes up almost the entire municipality and also extends to parts of the neighboring boroughs Moonachie and Hasbrouck Heights. It is the oldest operating airport in the New York City area (first departure in 1919). According to the results of the 2000 census, there were only 18 inhabitants in 7 households in the place, so that Teterboro is the smallest municipality in the county in terms of people in front of Rockleigh , which is 2.5 km² somewhat smaller (391 inhabitants).