Livingston is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, home to about 31,488 people across 14 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07039.
Homes sold for a median of $558 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Livingston. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Livingston lies on Lenape land that colonial buyers acquired in a series of purchases around 1700, the largest being the Horseneck Tract of about 1701. Early on the district was called Canoe Brook, and it grew as a scatter of farm hamlets with names such as Northfield, Cheapside, Morehousetown, Squiertown, Teedtown, Centerville and Washington Place. Farming, sawmills, gristmills and tanning supported it, and shoemaking later became a significant trade until after the Civil War. The Newark and Mount Pleasant Turnpike, chartered in 1806, ran through it with several toll gates.
Residents carved the township out of parts of Caldwell and Springfield townships so that town meetings would be closer. They proposed the name Amwell, but because that name was already taken, the legislature chose Livingston, after William Livingston, the state's first governor, and passed the act in February 1813. The first town meeting was held that April at a tavern in Teedtown.
The township stayed largely rural into the 20th century. Farmland began to be divided into building lots after the mid-1920s as automobiles made commuting practical, and growth sped up after World War II. Saint Barnabas hospital moved from Newark to a new campus on Old Short Hills Road in 1964, and the Livingston Mall opened off Eisenhower Parkway in 1972. The oldest surviving landmark is the Ward-Force House on South Livingston Avenue, a farmhouse begun about 1745 and enlarged by Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Force; the township bought it in 1962, and it was listed on the National Register in 1981 together with the 18th-century Condit Family Cook House, moved there in 1964.
Livingston is a largely residential township of single-family neighborhoods that were built mostly from the 1920s onward, with the heaviest building after World War II. Older hamlet names still mark sections of town, including Northfield, Cheapside near the mall site, Livingston Circle at the old Morehousetown crossroads, Washington Place, Cedar Ridge and West Livingston. The Passaic River forms the western border.
The town center runs along Livingston Avenue between Route 10 and Northfield Avenue, a long commercial strip with shops, restaurants, and a mixed-use town center development; the public library is nearby on Robert H. Harp Drive. Office parks line Eisenhower Parkway on the west side, and Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center occupies a large campus on the south side near West Orange and Millburn.
The Livingston Mall at Eisenhower Parkway and South Orange Avenue, opened in 1972, lost its anchor stores and shut down in 2026, and the township adopted a plan in 2025 to redevelop the site with higher-density housing; the timing of any project should be checked with the township. Wooded township and county parkland covers several hundred acres, much of it along the Roseland border. Livingston Public Schools operates the public school district.
The main roads are Interstate 280, which has an exit (4A) at Eisenhower Parkway, State Route 10, Eisenhower Parkway (County Route 609) on the west side, and County Routes 508 and 527. Livingston Avenue is the main north-south street through the town center. The Garden State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike and Interstate 80 are reached by way of I-280.
There is no train station in Livingston. The closest NJ Transit stations are on the Morris & Essex Lines in South Orange, Millburn and Short Hills, roughly 5 to 7 miles away, with trains to Hoboken and New York Penn Station. As of recent listings, a township commuter shuttle has linked the mall area with South Orange station; its schedule should be confirmed with the township.
Bus service as of recent listings includes NJ Transit routes 70, 71, 73 and 873 toward Newark and neighboring towns, and Community Coach route 77 to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. Newark Penn Station, about 10 miles away, connects to Amtrak and PATH.
Riker Hill Art Park, a 42-acre county park at 276 Beaufort Avenue, occupies a former army missile tracking base that Essex County bought from the federal government for one dollar in 1974. The old base buildings now hold 38 artist studios for painting, jewelry, ceramics, glassblowing, printmaking, photography and sculpture, and the studios open to the public for sales on the first weekends of June and November. The grounds, with public art and a scenic overlook, are open dawn to dusk.
Next door, Becker Park covers about 146 acres of undeveloped county land on the Livingston and Roseland border, with hiking trails and birding. The Old Force Homestead at 366 South Livingston Avenue, made up of the Ward-Force House and the Condit Family Cook House, serves as the museum and headquarters of the Livingston Historical Society and has been undergoing state-funded restoration.
The Livingston Public Library, founded in 1916, keeps a local history room and an online archive of the West Essex Tribune from 1929 to 2008, and its Friends group runs a BookFEST book sale, held in late October in 2026. The Livingston Symphony Orchestra, formed in 1960, performs each season, the New Jersey Ballet is based in town, and community theater groups stage shows locally.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)10 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ9 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY22 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Livingston; 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.
Livingston had 31,330 residents in the 2020 census, up 14% since 2000.
It’s the 75th 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 (3 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).
1,220 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Livingston.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 102 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 414 |
| Dentists | 74 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 273 |
| Mental health providers | 204 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 116 |
| Optometrists | 14 |
| Chiropractors | 23 |
| Pharmacies | 24 |
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 (8 nearby)
Grocery stores (4 nearby)
Pharmacies (2 nearby)
Libraries (1 nearby)
Museums
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 2.5 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.
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 Livingston Board of Education School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnet Hill Elementary SchoolLivingston | Pre-K–5 | 425 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| Collins Elementary SchoolLivingston | K–5 | 440 | Public | 0.8 mi |
| Harrison Elementary SchoolLivingston | K–5 | 522 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Hillside Elementary SchoolLivingston | K–5 | 476 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolLivingston | K–5 | 407 | Public | 0.9 mi |
| Riker Hill Elementary SchoolLivingston | K–5 | 477 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| Mount Pleasant Middle SchoolLivingston | 6 | 530 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| Heritage Middle SchoolLivingston | 7–8 | 994 | Public | 1.2 mi |
| Livingston High SchoolLivingston | 9–12 | 2,081 | Public | 0.4 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy Rae Kushner YeshivaLivingston | Pre-K–12 | 690 | Jewish | 2.4 mi |
| Little Angels Christian Montessori AcademyLivingston | Pre-K–K | 1 | Christian (no specific denomination) | 0.6 mi |
| Aquinas AcademyLivingston | TK–8 | 165 | Roman Catholic | 0.6 mi |
| Sinai Elementary at Joseph Kushner Hebrew AcademyLivingston | 2–8 | 38 | Jewish | 2.4 mi |
| Pillar High School (Former Horizon High School)Livingston | 8–12 | 82 | Nonsectarian | 2.0 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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