Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, home to about 14,790 people across 2.8 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07424.
Homes sold for a median of $384 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
Mostly Little Falls; also Woodland Park
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Little Falls. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Little Falls takes its name from a waterfall on the Passaic River that once spilled over the ledge downstream of the dam in front of the old Beattie Mill, and the township traces its story back to 1711. Before factories arrived, the local economy rested on farming and on quarrying brownstone; stone cut here went into Trinity Church in lower Manhattan. In 1780, during the Revolution, the area was the site of a military encampment.
Two pieces of infrastructure shaped the town in the 1800s. The Morris Canal, which opened in 1831 and ran 102 miles between the Delaware and the Hudson, crossed the Passaic at Little Falls on a great stone aqueduct, and remnants of its bed still pass through town. In 1842 Robert Beattie founded a carpet mill beside the falls. The Beattie family ran it until it closed in 1982, and for much of that time it was the township's largest employer, served by its own rail connection.
The oldest house still standing is the Reynier Speer House at 612 Upper Mountain Avenue. Its National Register listing, published in 1985, dates it to 1785 and recognizes it for its colonial architecture; some local accounts claim an earlier house of 1680 on the site, a date the record does not support. Little Falls was set up as a separate township in 1868, carved from Acquackanonk Township, and in 1914 part of its territory became the Borough of West Paterson, today's Woodland Park. In 2005, after a referendum, the township moved from a five-member township committee to an elected mayor and council under the Faulkner Act.
Little Falls is a compact township of about 2.8 square miles wedged between Montclair, Wayne, Cedar Grove, Woodland Park, Totowa, North Caldwell, Fairfield and Clifton. It is mostly residential, with light industrial and office uses mixed in, and much of the housing stock dates from the past century. Main Street is the business district, and many homes sit within walking distance of its shops, the schools and township offices.
Three areas carry their own names. The center of town around Main Street is usually just called Little Falls. Singac is the western section, much of it bordering the Passaic River, and Great Notch is the easternmost section; Browertown is another old local name. The Beattie Mill complex beside the falls has been converted into apartments and condominiums, using five original mill buildings plus a nine-story tower, with most units facing the river or the falls.
A large share of Montclair State University's campus lies inside the township, along with Yogi Berra Stadium and the university's ice arena. Public schools are run by the Little Falls School District, with offices on Stevens Avenue, and Passaic Valley Regional High School stands at 100 East Main Street.
U.S. Route 46 and Route 23 cross the township, and the Garden State Parkway and Interstate 80 are a short drive away. East Main Street (County Road 631) is the local spine between Little Falls and Woodland Park, and Union Avenue crosses the Passaic River, where a covered bridge stood as late as 1890.
Two NJ Transit stations on the Montclair-Boonton Line serve the township: Little Falls station and Montclair State University station. The line runs east through Montclair and Bloomfield toward Newark Broad Street, Secaucus Junction, Hoboken Terminal and New York Penn Station; at Hoboken riders can connect to PATH, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and NY Waterway ferries. West of town the line continues through Wayne, Lincoln Park and Boonton toward Dover and Hackettstown.
As of 2026, NJ Transit lists route 191 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan as stopping at Little Falls, with local routes 28 and 705 also serving the station area. Newark Liberty International Airport is about 12 miles away. The Little Falls Morris Canal Bikeway follows part of the old canal route through town.
Morris Canal Park offers a walk along the old canal from the Main Street business district to an overlook on the Passaic River near where the canal's stone aqueduct once stood. It is part of the Morris Canal Greenway that Passaic County is assembling through Little Falls, Woodland Park, Wayne, Clifton, Paterson and Pompton Lakes, and Little Falls Memorial Park and the county's Peckman Preserve appear on the same greenway map.
The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center, at 8 Yogi Berra Drive on the Montclair State campus, covers Yogi Berra's life and baseball career and runs exhibits, film screenings, talks and education programs. Yogi Berra Stadium next door and the Montclair State University Ice Arena host games and skating on campus.
The Reynier Speer House on Upper Mountain Avenue, a house of 1785 listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the township's best-known historic building.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)14 miles away |
|---|---|
| Closer regional airport | Teterboro Airport (TEB)8 miles away |
| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ11 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY21 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Little Falls; 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.
Little Falls had 13,360 residents in the 2020 census, up 23% since 2000.
It’s the 180th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Passaic County grew from 155,202 residents in 1900 to 524,118 in 2020.
Passaic County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 85°F in summer, and winter lows average 23°F. About 44.9 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Caldwell Essex Co Ap, NJ weather station (4 miles away).
146,956 jobs at 12,406 businesses in Passaic County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
277 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Little Falls.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 27 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 39 |
| Dentists | 30 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 25 |
| Mental health providers | 39 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 92 |
| Optometrists | 6 |
| Chiropractors | 19 |
| Pharmacies | 14 |
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 (17 nearby)
Grocery stores (2 nearby)
Pharmacies (1 nearby)
Libraries (2 nearby)
Museums
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 1.5 miles 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.
Established in 1868.
Colleges and universities
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Woodland Park School District, John P Holland Charter School School District, Little Falls Township Public School District and others. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Olbon SchoolWoodland Park | Pre-K–2 | 404 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| John P. Holland Charter SchoolWoodland | Pre-K–8 | 787 | Charter | 1.8 mi |
| Little Falls Township Public School # 2Little Falls | Pre-K–2 | 343 | Public | 0.5 mi |
| School OneWoodland Park | Pre-K | 122 | Public | 1.5 mi |
| Beatrice Gilmore SchoolWoodland Park | 3–5 | 359 | Public | 0.7 mi |
| Little Falls Township Public School # 3Little Falls | 3–4 | 217 | Public | 1.7 mi |
| Little Falls Township Public School # 1Little Falls | 5–8 | 392 | Public | 0.8 mi |
| Memorial Middle SchoolWoodland Park | 6–8 | 374 | Public | 0.6 mi |
| Passaic Valley Regional High SchoolLittle Falls | 9–12 | 1,093 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monarch Montessori SchoolLittle Falls | Pre-K–3 | 16 | Nonsectarian | 1.7 mi |
| Banyan Upper SchoolLittle Falls | 9–12 | 87 | Nonsectarian | 1.6 mi |
Source: U.S. Department of Education, NCES: Common Core of Data (2024-2025) for public schools; Private School Universe Survey (2023-2024) for private schools. Listed by address; we don’t rate schools.
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Shares ZIP codes with Woodland Park.
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