Essex County, New Jersey

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Essex Fwy, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA

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N40° 47' 24" W74° 15' 0"   (40.79, -74.25) Start navigation »

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Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2016 Census estimate, the county's population was 796,914, making it the state's third-most populous county, an increase of 1.7% from the 2010 United States Census, when its population was enumerated at 783,969, in turn a decrease of 1.2% (9,664 fewer residents) from the 793,633 enumerated in the 2000 Census. In 2010, the county dropped down to third-largest, behind Middlesex County, and was one of only two counties in the state to see a decline between 2000 and 2010 (Cape May County being the other). Its county seat is Newark. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area.
In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $60,030, the eighth-highest in New Jersey and ranked 153rd of 3,113 counties in the United States. The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 94th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the seventh-highest in New Jersey) as of 2009.

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