Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, home to about 20,453 people across 2.9 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07960.
Homes sold for a median of $476 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
Mostly Morristown; also Morris and Hanover
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Morristown. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Morristown grew up around its Green, a keystone-shaped common of about two and a half acres that first shows up on maps in 1715. In its early decades the Green held the county courthouse and jail, a pair of taverns, a well and grazing livestock. The courthouse moved to Court Street in 1827, and since 1816 the Green has been held by a private board of trustees who keep it as a public park.
The Revolution put the town on the map. George Washington stayed at Arnold's Tavern on the Green in the winter of 1777, and the Continental Army returned for a second winter encampment from December 1779 to June 1780, with Washington headquartered at the Ford Mansion and troops camped at Jockey Hollow. Those sites now form Morristown National Historical Park. In the 1800s the Vail family's Speedwell Iron Works hosted the first public demonstration of the electromagnetic telegraph in January 1838, and George Perot Macculloch, of Macculloch Hall, proposed the Morris Canal, begun in 1825.
The Morris and Essex Railroad reached Morristown in 1838 and moved its station to Morris Street in 1848; the current station building dates to 1913. Morristown separated from Morris Township and became a town on April 6, 1865, and it has remained the county seat. The Morristown District, listed on the National Register in 1973, covers the Green, the courthouse, the 1918 Municipal Building given by AT&T founder Theodore N. Vail, the 1917 library and dozens of 19th-century houses, including cartoonist Thomas Nast's 1869 home on Macculloch Avenue.
Morristown is a compact town completely surrounded by Morris Township, with the Green at its center and streets radiating out toward the township line. Downtown, the blocks around the Green, South Street, Speedwell Avenue, Spring Street and Morris Street mix storefronts, offices, the county courthouse complex and newer apartment and condominium buildings, several of them on Cattano Avenue and Spring Street. Headquarters Plaza, a cluster of three office towers and a hotel joined by a concourse, sits off Speedwell Avenue.
South and west of the Green, the historic district takes in Macculloch Avenue, Miller Road, Colles and Wetmore Avenues, DeHart Street, South Street and Park Place. These streets hold a handful of Federal-era buildings, such as the 1810 Macculloch Hall, and many large Victorian houses from the mid and late 1800s in Mansard, stick and Greek Revival styles, along with early 20th-century public buildings.
The town's zoning is arranged in rings: buildings up to five stories are allowed at the center, tapering to three stories toward the edges. Zoning updates under the Morristown Moving Forward master plan, first adopted in 2014 and reexamined in 2018 and 2022, limited taller construction near the Green and the Speedwell Avenue town center, banned stacked townhouses and added incentives to keep older buildings standing rather than tear them down.
Morristown station sits on Lackawanna Place near Morris and Elm Streets, in a 1913 Renaissance Revival depot that is listed on the National Register. It is on NJ Transit's Morris and Essex Lines (the Morristown Line), with trains toward Newark Broad Street and Hoboken and Midtown Direct trains to New York Penn Station. In 2026 NJ Transit was running a Portal Cutover schedule with Midtown Direct trains diverted to Hoboken, where rail tickets are cross-honored on PATH, NY Waterway and the 126 bus, so riders bound for Manhattan should check current schedules.
The station has an accessible platform, Wi-Fi, bike racks or lockers and a ticket office at 122 Morris Street open weekday mornings and early afternoons. Two NJ Transit-owned lots, run by the Morristown Parking Authority, serve commuters: a small permit lot on Morris Street and a larger lot of about 400 spaces at 10 Lafayette Avenue, both $7 a day or $120 a month as of 2026.
Interstate 287 and U.S. Route 202 pass through town, and Route 24 meets Route 202 near the national park's headquarters area. The town owns Morristown Municipal Airport, which lies about three miles east in Hanover Township; Newark Liberty International is the closest major commercial airport, reached by Route 24 and Interstate 78. The downtown grid around the Green is easy to cover on foot, and Patriots' Path runs along the Speedwell Lake area.
Morristown National Historical Park has no entrance fee. Washington's Headquarters Museum and the Ford Mansion are off Washington Place, Fort Nonsense preserves the site of a Revolutionary earthen fort with a long view east toward New York, and the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center at 586 Tempe Wick Road is the starting point for the Wick House, the Pennsylvania Brigade's replica soldier huts and the park's trail network. Park buildings are generally open Thursday through Monday, and the grounds are open all year.
The Green holds the 1871 Soldiers at Rest Civil War monument and The Alliance, bronze figures of Washington, Hamilton and Lafayette dedicated in 2007. It is the setting for the Festival on the Green and a Christmas festival with a tree lighting, and a Sunday farmers market sets up at Spring and Morris Streets.
Historic Speedwell, a county park at 333 Speedwell Avenue, preserves the Vail homestead and the Factory Building where the telegraph was first shown publicly, a National Historic Landmark; it is open April through October. Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, at 45 Macculloch Avenue, is an 1810 Federal mansion with gardens and a large Thomas Nast collection. The Morris County Historical Society runs Acorn Hall, a Victorian house with gardens off Morris Avenue. The Mayo Performing Arts Center, at 100 South Street, has presented more than 200 events a year since 1994, from touring performers to New Jersey arts groups, and was honored as an outstanding historic theater in 2016.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)18 miles away |
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| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ17 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY30 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Morristown; 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.
Morristown had 20,180 residents in the 2020 census, up 9% since 2000.
It’s the 136th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Morris County grew from 65,156 residents in 1900 to 509,285 in 2020.
Morris 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 22°F. About 50.4 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year, with about 24 inches of snow.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Canoe Brook, NJ weather station (8 miles away).
301,249 jobs at 16,518 businesses in Morris County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
2,060 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Morristown.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 213 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 815 |
| Dentists | 65 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 411 |
| Mental health providers | 405 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 123 |
| Optometrists | 7 |
| Chiropractors | 21 |
| Pharmacies | 12 |
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 (18 nearby)
Grocery stores (5 nearby)
Pharmacies (2 nearby)
Libraries (3 nearby)
Museums (4 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues (1 nearby)
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 1715.
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 Educational Services Commission of Morris County, Morris School District, Unity Charter School. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Park SchoolMorristown | Pre-K–12 | 22 | Special Education | 2.2 mi |
| Lafayette Learning CenterMorristown | Pre-K | 118 | Public | 0.9 mi |
| Hillcrest SchoolMorristown | K–2 | 251 | Public | 0.8 mi |
| Normandy Park SchoolMorristown | K–5 | 371 | Public | 2.0 mi |
| Unity Charter SchoolMorristown | K–8 | 256 | Charter | 1.3 mi |
| Alexander HamiltonMorristown | 3–5 | 251 | Public | 0.5 mi |
| Sussex Avenue SchoolMorristown | 3–5 | 327 | Public | 1.0 mi |
| Thomas Jefferson SchoolMorristown | 3–5 | 285 | Public | 0.7 mi |
| Frelinghuysen Middle SchoolMorristown | 6–8 | 1,078 | Public | 2.0 mi |
| Morristown High SchoolMorristown | 9–12 | 1,816 | Public | 0.4 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumption of the Bvm SchoolMorristown | Pre-K–8 | 376 | Roman Catholic | 0.5 mi |
| Cheder LubavitchMorristown | Pre-K–8 | 231 | Jewish | 0.9 mi |
| The Red Oaks SchoolMorristown | Pre-K–8 | 157 | Nonsectarian | 0.9 mi |
| The Peck SchoolMorristown | K–8 | 354 | Nonsectarian | 1.0 mi |
| Fusion AcademyMorristown | 6–12 | 53 | Nonsectarian | 0.7 mi |
| Delbarton SchoolMorristown | 7–12 | 646 | Roman Catholic | 2.3 mi |
| Villa Walsh AcademyMorristown | 7–12 | 194 | Roman Catholic | 1.4 mi |
| Shepard Preparatory High SchoolMorristown | 9–12 | 71 | Nonsectarian | 0.6 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 Morris, Hanover, Harding and Mendham Township.
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