Plainfield
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Union
- Incorporated
- April 21, 1869
- Type
- Special charter
- Body
- City Council
- Mayor
- Adrian O. Mapp ( D , term ends December 31, 2029)
- Administrator
- Abby Levenson
- Municipal clerk
- Abubakar Jalloh
- Total
- 5.97 sq mi (15.46 km )
- Land
- 5.96 sq mi (15.43 km )
- Water
- 0.0077 sq mi (0.02 km ) 0.15%
- Rank
- 258th of 565 in state, 8th of 21 in county
- Elevation
- 95 ft (29 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 54,670
- Density
- 9,160.3/sq mi (3,536.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 ( Eastern (EDT) )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Downtown Plainfield Train Station, one of two stations running to New York City on the Raritan Valley LineNetherwood station on the Raritan Valley Line to Newark/New York, one of two train stations in Plainfield Plainfield is a city in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Nicknamed "The Queen City," it serves as both a regional hub for Central New Jersey and a bedroom suburb of the New York Metropolitan area, located in the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population, majority Latino for the first time, was 54,586. This was an increase of 4,778 (+9.6%) from the 2010 census count of 49,808, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,979 (+4.1%) from the 47,829 counted in the 2000 census. In 2023, the Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 54,670.
The area of present-day Plainfield was originally formed as Plainfield Township, a township that was created on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County. On March 19, 1857, Plainfield Township became part of the newly created Union County.