{"id":6276,"date":"2023-07-24T18:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:59:37","slug":"warren-county-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/warren-county-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren County, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warren County is a county in New Jersey, United States, about 60 miles west of New York City, along the Delaware River border with Pennsylvania. It had a population of 109,632 at the 2020 census, an estimated 112,953 residents in the Census Bureau&#8217;s latest county estimate, and covers 362.65 square miles (939.3 km2) centred near 40\u00b054\u2032N 75\u00b000\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Belvidere is the county seat; its postal code is 07823. The county holds 3 towns, 2 boroughs and 17 townships &mdash; all 22 places are incorporated municipalities, since New Jersey has no unincorporated land &mdash; and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 34041.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Warren County<\/h2>\n<p>Warren County has 22 municipalities on record, and every one of them is a legally incorporated town, borough or township &mdash; unlike most US counties, New Jersey leaves no unincorporated land, so there are no CDPs or rural crossroads on this list. Population figures are 2020 census counts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Phillipsburg<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>15,249<\/td>\n<td>08865<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hackettstown<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>10,248<\/td>\n<td>07840<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lopatcong Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>8,776<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mansfield Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>7,781<\/td>\n<td>07865<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Washington<\/td>\n<td>Borough<\/td>\n<td>7,299<\/td>\n<td>07882<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Washington Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>6,492<\/td>\n<td>07831<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blairstown Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>5,704<\/td>\n<td>07825<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Greenwich Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>5,473<\/td>\n<td>08886<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Independence Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>5,469<\/td>\n<td>07838<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Allamuchy Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>5,335<\/td>\n<td>07820<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>White Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>4,606<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pohatcong Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>3,241<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Franklin Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,968<\/td>\n<td>08808<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Knowlton Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,894<\/td>\n<td>07832<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Liberty Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,670<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Belvidere<\/td>\n<td>Town &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>2,520<\/td>\n<td>07823<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Harmony Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,503<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oxford Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,444<\/td>\n<td>07863<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Alpha<\/td>\n<td>Borough<\/td>\n<td>2,328<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Frelinghuysen Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>2,199<\/td>\n<td>07846<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hope Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>1,835<\/td>\n<td>07844<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hardwick Township<\/td>\n<td>Township<\/td>\n<td>1,598<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two pairs on this list are easy to mix up. Washington Borough and Washington Township are separate municipalities that share only a border and a name &mdash; the borough was carved out of the township in 1868 and now sits as its own enclave near Hackettstown. Mansfield Township&#8217;s post office town, Port Murray, and Independence Township&#8217;s post office town, Great Meadows, both predate the modern township names and are still what mail carriers and most residents actually call those places.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>08865 &mdash; Phillipsburg (also serves Alpha, Lopatcong Township and Pohatcong Township, none of which have a ZIP of their own)<\/li>\n<li>07840 &mdash; Hackettstown<\/li>\n<li>07882 &mdash; Washington (the borough)<\/li>\n<li>07831 &mdash; Changewater, the Washington Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07825 &mdash; Blairstown<\/li>\n<li>08886 &mdash; Stewartsville, the Greenwich Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07838 &mdash; Great Meadows, the Independence Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07865 &mdash; Port Murray, the Mansfield Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07820 &mdash; Allamuchy<\/li>\n<li>08808 &mdash; Broadway, the Franklin Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07832 &mdash; Columbia, the Knowlton Township post office (part of the township also uses 07833, Delaware)<\/li>\n<li>07823 &mdash; Belvidere<\/li>\n<li>07863 &mdash; Oxford<\/li>\n<li>07846 &mdash; Johnsonburg, the Frelinghuysen Township post office<\/li>\n<li>07844 &mdash; Hope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>White, Liberty, Harmony and Hardwick townships have no ZIP code carrying their own name; mail there is delivered under a neighbouring post office instead, a common pattern in western New Jersey where the 19th-century post-office towns never matched the later civil township boundaries.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Warren County straddles two landscape regions. Its western edge follows the Delaware River, with the Kittatinny Ridge rising above the river&#8217;s Delaware Water Gap crossing in the northwest &mdash; the county&#8217;s highest points, near 1,600 feet, sit just south of the Upper Yards Creek Reservoir west of Blairstown. East of the ridge the land drops into the Great Valley and then the New Jersey Highlands, drained by the Paulins Kill, the Pequest River and the Musconetcong River, which forms most of the county&#8217;s southern border. Harmony Township holds Merrill Creek Reservoir, the largest reservoir in New Jersey, built to supplement river flow for downstream power plants rather than for local drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Sussex County lies to the north, Morris County to the east, and Hunterdon County to the south. Across the Delaware River to the west sit Northampton County and, along the county&#8217;s northwestern tip near the Water Gap, Monroe County, both in Pennsylvania. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sussex-county-new-jersey\/\">Sussex County<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/morris-county-new-jersey\/\">Morris County<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/hunterdon-county\/\">Hunterdon County<\/a> all border Warren directly on the New Jersey side.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Warren County had a population of 109,632 at the 2020 census, its highest decennial count on record, up from 108,692 in 2010 and 102,437 in 2000. Phillipsburg and Hackettstown are the two largest communities, together home to roughly a quarter of the county&#8217;s residents. Median household income runs about $100,869, slightly above New Jersey&#8217;s statewide figure of $99,781 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to about 307 people per square mile of land, moderate for a New Jersey county and far below the density of the counties closer to New York City.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance is the county&#8217;s largest employment sector, with about 8,378 workers, followed by manufacturing at 6,464 and retail trade at 6,168. The single best-known employer is Mars Wrigley Confectionery, whose Hackettstown plant makes M&amp;M&#8217;s, Snickers, Milky Way and Twix and has operated there since 1958. Hackettstown is also home to Centenary University, the county&#8217;s only four-year college, which traces back to an 1867 preparatory school and gained university status in 2017. In the county&#8217;s southwest hills, five wineries operate within the federally recognized Warren Hills American Viticultural Area. Belvidere holds the county&#8217;s best-known annual event, Victorian Days, on the first Saturday after Labor Day each September, with period dress and a horse-drawn carriage procession around the county courthouse green.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>New Jersey&#8217;s legislature created Warren County on 20 November 1824, carving it out of Sussex and Hunterdon counties. It was named for Joseph Warren, a Massachusetts physician and Revolutionary War general who died fighting at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. Belvidere, incorporated as a town in 1845 from part of Oxford Township, became the county seat; its courthouse, built in 1826 on land donated by future governor Garret D. Wall, still stands.<\/p>\n<p>The Delaware River corridor had been settled by the Lenape for centuries before European contact, with agriculture, net fishing and trapping supporting communities along the river well before 1000 A.D. Colonial settlers built a chain of small forts along the river during the French and Indian War in the 1750s to guard the frontier. The Morris Canal, opened in 1832, ran from Phillipsburg east across the county through villages such as Port Colden and Port Murray, carrying Pennsylvania coal and iron toward Newark; New Jersey took the canal over in 1922 and formally abandoned it in 1924, leaving the string of &#8220;Port&#8221; place names on today&#8217;s map as its trace.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 80 is the only interstate crossing Warren County, running east&ndash;west through Allamuchy, Mansfield, Independence, Hope and Knowlton townships on its way to the Delaware Water Gap toll bridge into Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easton, Pennsylvania &mdash; about 3 miles west of Phillipsburg<\/li>\n<li>Newton &mdash; about 15 miles north of Blairstown<\/li>\n<li>Morristown &mdash; about 25 miles east of Hackettstown<\/li>\n<li>Flemington &mdash; about 20 miles south of Washington<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lehigh Valley International Airport, near Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the nearest commercial airport, roughly 20 miles from Phillipsburg. No Amtrak train stops in the county; NJ Transit&#8217;s Morristown Line and Montclair&ndash;Boonton Line both terminate at Hackettstown station, connecting toward Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station, where Amtrak service continues.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Warren County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in northwestern New Jersey along the Delaware River, about 60 miles west of New York City, bordered by Sussex, Morris and Hunterdon counties and, across the river, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Warren County?<\/strong><br \/>\n109,632 at the 2020 census, with a recent Census Bureau estimate near 112,953.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Warren County?<\/strong><br \/>\n362.65 square miles (939.3 km2), of which 356.54 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Warren County?<\/strong><br \/>\nBelvidere, incorporated in 1845, is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and municipalities are in Warren County?<\/strong><br \/>\n22 &mdash; 3 towns (Phillipsburg, Hackettstown and Belvidere), 2 boroughs (Washington and Alpha) and 17 townships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Warren County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n15 primary codes, led by 08865 for Phillipsburg and 07840 for Hackettstown, with several townships sharing a neighbouring post office&#8217;s ZIP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Warren County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Mars Wrigley candy factory in Hackettstown, the traces of the historic Morris Canal, and the Delaware Water Gap along its northwestern edge.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/new-jersey\/\">Towns and villages in New Jersey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren County is a county in New Jersey, United States, about 60 miles west of New York City, along the Delaware River border with Pennsylvania. 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