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Sussex County
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county in New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- Founded
- June 8, 1753
- Named after
- Sussex , England
- Seat
- Newton
- Largest municipality
- Vernon Township (population and area)
- Commissioner director
- Chris Carney ( R )
- Total
- 535.54 sq mi (1,387.0 km )
- Land
- 518.66 sq mi (1,343.3 km )
- Water
- 16.88 sq mi (43.7 km ) 3.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 148,063
- Density
- 278.06/sq mi (107.36/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 5th , 7th
- Website
- sussex .nj .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Sussex
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- New Jersey
- Contains
- Hopatcong
- Capital
- Newton
- Population
- 144221
- Area
- 1388
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Orange County
- Highest point
- High Point
- Official website
- www.sussex.nj.us
- Image
- East from Kittatinny Mountain DWGNRA Walpack Twsp NJ.jpg
- Households
- 54166
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sussex County, New Jersey
- Commons category
- Sussex County, New Jersey
- inception
- 1753-06-08
- different from
- Sussex County
- water as percent of area
- 3.12
- native label
- Sussex County
- social media followers
- 2901
- per capita income
- 46124
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Encyclopedic overview
Sussex County (/ˈsʌsɪks/) is the northernmost county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Its county seat is Newton. It is part of the New York metropolitan area and is part of New Jersey's Skylands Region. As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 17th-most-populous county, with a population of 144,221, a decrease of 5,044 (−3.4%) from the 2010 census count of 149,265, which in turn reflected an increase of 5,099 (+3.5%) over the 144,166 persons at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program estimated a 2025 population of 148,063, an increase of 3,842 (+2.7%) from the 2020 decennial census. Based on 2020 census data, Vernon Township was the county's largest in both population and area, with a population of 22,358 and covering an area of 70.59 square miles (182.8 km). The county is part of the North Jersey region of the state.
In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $55,497, the ninth-highest in New Jersey and ranked 220th of 3,113 counties in the United States. As of 2010 The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 131st-highest per capita income ($49,207) of the 3,113 counties in the United States (and the ninth-highest in the state).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sussex County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.