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Edison
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township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Middlesex
- Incorporated
- March 17, 1870 (as Raritan Township)
- Renamed
- November 10, 1954 (as Edison Township)
- Named after
- Thomas Edison
- Type
- Faulkner Act Mayor-Council
- Body
- Township Council
- Mayor
- Samip Joshi ( D , term ends December 31, 2029)
- Administrator
- Sonia Alves-Viveiros
- Municipal clerk
- Cheryl Russomanno
- Total
- 30.69 sq mi (79.49 km )
- Land
- 30.06 sq mi (77.86 km )
- Water
- 0.63 sq mi (1.63 km ) 2.05%
- Rank
- 88th of 565 in state, 4th of 25 in county
- Elevation
- 39 ft (12 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 106,836
- Density
- 3,578.2/sq mi (1,381.6/km )
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Edison Township, NJ
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Described at
Edison Historical Timeline
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Edison
- Population
- 99967
- Area
- 79.351
- Elevation
- 35
- Official website
- www.edisonnj.org
- Image
- TheEdisonTower.jpg
- Households
- 34010
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- Commons category
- Edison, New Jersey
- postal code
- 08899
- inception
- 1651-00-00
- per capita income
- 44177
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Edison is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. Situated in Central New Jersey within the core of the state's Raritan Valley region, Edison is a commercial hub (home to Menlo Park Mall and Little India) and is a bedroom community of New York City within the New York metropolitan area.
As of the 2020 United States census, the township was the state's sixth-most-populous municipality, with a population of 107,588, an increase of 7,621 (+7.6%) from the 2010 census count of 99,967, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,280 (+2.3%) from the 97,687 counted in the 2000 census.