Glen Ridge is a borough in Essex County, New Jersey, home to about 7,943 people across 1.3 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07028.
Homes sold for a median of $671 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
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Glen Ridge sits on a ridge east of First Mountain, cut by the wooded ravine of Toney's Brook, known locally as the Glen. For most of the 1800s it was part of Bloomfield: farms and woodland on the hill, and mills along the brook below, which gained access to the Morris Canal after it opened in 1832. One of those mills, later called Hayden's Mill, was bought in 1901 by Thomas Edison, who used it for battery experiments for electric cars.
The railroad turned the hill into a suburb. The Newark and Bloomfield Railroad began service in 1856, a platform named Ridgewood opened at Prospect Street (now Ridgewood Avenue) in 1860, and the New York and Greenwood Lake line arrived in 1872. Residents of the hill section, frustrated by unpaved roads, missing water and sewer lines and distant schools, voted narrowly in February 1895 to secede, and the Borough of Glen Ridge was incorporated that year. The Glen Ridge Country Club, organized in 1894, is one of the older golf clubs in the country.
The borough's character was set early. Architects recommended gas streetlamps when the borough was formed, and gaslight remains its signature, with more than 600 lamps still in use. The present Ridgewood Avenue station was built in 1887, and the municipal building, which also houses the police and the library, was dedicated in 1931. Most of the borough falls within the Glen Ridge Historic District, listed on the State and National Registers in 1982 and enlarged in 1989.
Glen Ridge is long and narrow, stretching north to south along Ridgewood Avenue, its main residential street. The housing is overwhelmingly single-family and mostly built before World War II. The late 1800s and early 1900s brought Queen Anne and then Colonial Revival houses, and Tudor Revival and English cottage designs followed during and after World War I; scattered examples of Shingle, Italianate, Second Empire, Mission and Prairie styles also appear. Ridgewood Avenue and parts of Forest and Woodland avenues have the largest houses and lots, while streets at the southern end, such as Hawthorne, Midland and Carteret, have smaller lots and houses set closer together.
Gas lamps line nearly every borough street, and the blocks are heavily planted with trees. Multi-family housing is limited and sits mostly at the edges: mid-rise apartment buildings and smaller townhouse and condominium groups along parts of Bloomfield Avenue and Glen Ridge Avenue, and a small area of two- and three-family houses on Hillside Avenue.
Commerce is modest, clustered along Bloomfield Avenue and near the train station at Ridgewood Avenue. The Glen, the wooded corridor along Toney's Brook beside Bloomfield Avenue, is the borough's largest open space, and neighborhood fields such as Carteret Park, Forest Avenue Field, Sherman Avenue Field, Clay Field and Hurrell Field are spread through the residential streets. Essex County's Brookdale Park lies just past the northern end of the borough.
Glen Ridge station, at Ridgewood and Bloomfield avenues, is on NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line. The station house is at street level, with the tracks and platforms below in a cut created when the railroad removed its grade crossings in 1912. Weekday trains run to New York Penn Station on Midtown Direct service and to Hoboken, and weekend trains between Bay Street in Montclair and Hoboken also stop here. Glen Ridge is a few stops closer to New York than Montclair's northern stations, and published NJ Transit timetables have shown midday rides to Penn Station of roughly 40 minutes.
Bloomfield Avenue, County Route 506, crosses the borough east to west and carries NJ Transit local buses toward Newark, including routes 11, 28 and 29. Ridgewood Avenue is the main north-south street. The Garden State Parkway, Route 3, Interstate 280 and Route 21 are all close by, and Route 3 leads east to the Lincoln Tunnel and Midtown Manhattan. Newark Liberty International Airport is the nearest major airport.
Because the borough is narrow, most homes are a short walk or bike ride from Ridgewood Avenue and the station. A path with a gazebo follows the Glen along Bloomfield Avenue.
Glen Ridge's public spaces are on a neighborhood scale. Freeman Gardens, a volunteer-run rose garden at Maolis and Hawthorne avenues, was dedicated in 1968, and the Glen has a path and gazebo along Toney's Brook. Hurrell Field, on the site of the mill Edison once owned, has a quarter-mile running track, ball fields and a field house. The borough also runs a summer community pool on Clark Street and the six clay Freeman tennis courts on Woodland Avenue.
The Glen Ridge Public Library on Ridgewood Avenue has served the borough since 1912 and keeps a local history archive, and the Glen Ridge Historical Society publishes research on the borough's houses, stations and gas lamps. The historic district itself, with gaslit streets and houses from the late 1800s through the 1930s, can be explored on foot.
Several events recur each year. The Memorial Day parade runs south on Ridgewood Avenue to the war memorial at Ridgewood Avenue School, followed by a picnic at the train station. The borough lights its holiday tree in front of Borough Hall in early December. On Thanksgiving morning, the Ashenfelter 8K Classic, named for 1952 Olympic steeplechase champion Horace Ashenfelter, starts at Glen Ridge High School and is scheduled for its 27th running in 2026. Brookdale Park and the museums, theaters and shopping streets of Montclair are a short trip away.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)8 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ6 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY17 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Glen Ridge; driving is longer.
Source: Airports from OurAirports (scheduled passenger service); city centers and populations from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: Members of Congress from the congress-legislators project; districts from the Census Bureau’s relationship files; governor and mayor from Wikidata.
Glen Ridge had 7,802 residents in the 2020 census, up 7% since 2000.
It’s the 296th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Essex County grew from 359,053 residents in 1900 to 863,728 in 2020.
Essex County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 86°F in summer, and winter lows average 21°F. About 48.5 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Essex Fells Service Bldg, NJ weather station (5 miles away).
295,575 jobs at 19,392 businesses in Essex County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
141 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Glen Ridge.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 23 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 60 |
| Dentists | 4 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 31 |
| Mental health providers | 15 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 6 |
| Chiropractors | 2 |
| Pharmacies | 4 |
Source: Hospitals from CMS Hospital General Information (ratings are CMS overall star ratings); straight-line distances; providers from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), by practice address and primary specialty.
Parks (14 nearby)
Grocery stores (1 nearby)
Pharmacies (4 nearby)
Libraries (3 nearby)
Museums
Theaters and performance venues (7 nearby)
Counts are within about 1 mile of the center of town.
Source: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (openstreetmap.org/copyright), as mapped by volunteers; it can miss places or include closed ones.
Notable people born here
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Glen Ridge Public School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central SchoolGlen Ridge | Pre-K–2 | 127 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| Forest Avenue SchoolGlen Ridge | Pre-K–2 | 127 | Public | 1.2 mi |
| Linden Avenue SchoolGlen Ridge | Pre-K–2 | 153 | Public | 0.8 mi |
| Ridgewood Avenue SchoolGlen Ridge | 3–6 | 540 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| Glen Ridge High SchoolGlen Ridge | 7–12 | 799 | Public | 0.3 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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