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Palisades Park
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borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Bergen
- Incorporated
- March 22, 1899
- Type
- Borough
- Body
- Borough Council
- Mayor
- Chong "Paul" Kim ( D , term ends December 31, 2026)
- Administrator
- Roberta Stern
- Municipal clerk
- Sophia Jang
- Total
- 1.28 sq mi (3.32 km )
- Land
- 1.24 sq mi (3.21 km )
- Water
- 0.042 sq mi (0.11 km ) 3.28%
- Rank
- 474th of 565 in state, 60th of 70 in county
- Elevation
- 112 ft (34 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 20,102
- Density
- 16,377.7/sq mi (6,323.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- borough of New Jersey
- Official name
- Palisades Park
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Bergen County
- Population
- 20292
- Area
- 3.304474
- Elevation
- 112
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Ridgefield Park
- Official website
- palisadesparknj.us
- Image
- BroadAveColumbiaKoreatownPalisadesPk.png
- Households
- 7291
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- Commons category
- Palisades Park, New Jersey
- postal code
- 07650
- inception
- 1899-03-22
- water as percent of area
- 1.9273
- per capita income
- 35601
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Encyclopedic overview
Palisades Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 20,292, an increase of 670 (+3.4%) from the 2010 census count of 19,622, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,549 (+14.9%) from the 17,073 counted in the 2000 census.
The borough of Palisades Park was created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 22, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township. A portion of its area was annexed by the neighboring borough of Fort Lee in April 1909. The borough was named for its location atop the New Jersey Palisades.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palisades Park” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.