Hunterdon County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- Named after
- Robert Hunter
- Seat
- Flemington
- Largest municipality
- Raritan Township (population), Readington Township (area)
- Commission director
- Zachary T. Rich ( R , term ends December 31, 2023)
- Total
- 437.40 sq mi (1,132.9 km )
- Land
- 427.84 sq mi (1,108.1 km )
- Water
- 9.56 sq mi (24.8 km ) 2.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 131,781
- Density
- 301.39/sq mi (116.37/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- co .hunterdon .nj .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. At the 2020 census, the county was the state's 4th-least populous county, with a population of 128,947, an increase of 598 (+0.5%) from the 2010 census count of 128,349. Its county seat is Flemington. The United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program estimated a 2025 population of 131,781, an increase of 2,834 (+2.2%) from the 2020 decennial census. The county is part of the Central Jersey region of the state.
In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $80,759, the third-highest in New Jersey and ranked 33rd of 3,113 counties in the United States. The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 19th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. In 2011, Hunterdon County had the second-lowest level of child poverty of any county in the United States.