Description
North Bergen was incorporated as a township on April 10, 1843.
North Bergen is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township had a total population of 58,092.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 5.6 square miles (14.6 km²), of which, 5.2 square miles (13.5 km²) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.1 km²) of it (7.47%) is water.
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 58,092 people, 21,236 households, and 14,249 families residing in the township. The population density was 11,179.6 people per square mile (4,313.4/km²). There were 22,009 housing units at an average density of 1, 634.2/km² (4,235.5/sq mi). The racial makeup of the township was 67.36% White, 2.72% African American, 0.40% Native American, 6.47% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 15.53% from other races, and 7.47% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 57.25% of the population.
The North Bergen School District serves students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics[21]) are six elementary schools — Robert Fulton School (K-8; 1,157), Franklin School (1-8; 660 students), John F. Kennedy School (K-8; 547), Lincoln School (PreK-8; 1,195), Horace Mann School (K-8; 1,048) and McKinley School (K-8; 461) — and North Bergen High School for grades 9-12 (2,399). Students from Guttenberg attend the district's high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Guttenberg Public School District.[22]
North Bergen is also home to A Step Ahead Preschool, a private school.
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