Westfield
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town in Union County, New Jersey
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Union
- Formed
- January 27, 1794
- Incorporated
- February 21, 1798 (as township)
- Reincorporated
- March 4, 1903 (as town)
- Type
- Special charter
- Body
- Town Council
- Mayor
- Jeremy Berman ( D , term ends December 31, 2029)
- Administrator
- James H. Gildea
- Municipal clerk
- Maureen Lawshe
- Total
- 6.74 sq mi (17.46 km )
- Land
- 6.73 sq mi (17.42 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km ) 0.28%
- Rank
- 246th of 565 in state, 5th of 21 in county
- Elevation
- 118 ft (36 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 30,559
- Density
- 4,615.1/sq mi (1,781.9/km )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Westfield
- Population
- 31032
- Area
- 17.463487
- Elevation
- 36
- Official website
- www.westfieldnj.gov
- Image
- Miller Cory NJ.JPG
- Households
- 10188
- Dialing code
- 908
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- Commons category
- Westfield, New Jersey
- postal code
- 07091
- inception
- 1794-01-27
- water as percent of area
- 0.3563
- per capita income
- 79894
- date of incorporation
- 1798-02-21
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Westfield is a town in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located within the heart of the Rahway Valley region, Westfield is a bustling commercial and cultural hub in northern–central New Jersey, and it is a wealthy bedroom community of New York City within the New York metropolitan area (located 16 miles (26 km) southwest of New York City). In March 2018, Bloomberg ranked Westfield as the 99th highest-income place in the United States, and the 18th highest-income location in New Jersey. According to a 2014 nationwide survey, Westfield was ranked as the 30th-safest city to live in the United States.
As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 31,032, an increase of 716 (+2.4%) from the 2010 census count of 30,316, which in turn reflected an increase of 672 (+2.3%) from the 29,644 counted in the 2000 census. The town has been one of the state's highest-income communities. Based on data from the American Community Survey for 2013–2017, Westfield residents had a median household income of $159,923, ranked 8th in the state among municipalities with more than 10,000 residents, more than double the statewide median of $76,475.