Pequannock is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, home to about 15,641 people across 6.8 square miles. Its ZIP codes are 07440 and 07444.
Homes sold for a median of $426 per square foot across 2 ZIP codes in the three months ending August 2026, and all of them were seller’s markets.
Each card is that ZIP code’s whole market, including any part outside Pequannock. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
Pequannock sits where the Ramapo, Pompton and Pequannock Rivers come together, on the flat river plain that gave Pompton Plains its name. Land here was purchased and settled in the mid-1690s, and the area appears in records as Poquanick by 1720. When Morris County was created in 1740, Pequannock was its largest township, covering roughly 176 square miles. Over the next two centuries Jefferson, Rockaway, Boonton, Montville, Butler, Kinnelon, Lincoln Park and Riverdale were all formed from its territory, leaving about 7.1 square miles today.
The Newark-Pompton Turnpike, built between 1806 and 1811, linked the farms of the valley with Newark and still serves as the township's main street. A feeder dam for the Morris Canal was built nearby in 1827. The oldest surviving building, the Martin Berry House, is an 18th-century farmhouse with twenty-inch-thick stone walls, a gambrel roof and interior chimneys; it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in the 1930s and listed on the National Register in 1973.
The railroad changed the township most. The Montclair Railroad, later part of the Erie system, built the Pompton Plains station at 33 Evans Place in 1872, a board-and-batten Carpenter Gothic building with a slate gable roof and decorative trussed gables. Rail service helped turn a farming district into a suburb, and the population grew sharply in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Commuter trains stopped calling in 1966 and the station closed in 1968. The township bought it in 2005, it was listed on the National Register in 2008, and county preservation grants have since paid for restoration of its roof, siding, windows and platform.
The township has two named sections. Pompton Plains, the larger, covers the northern part and most of the township's land, and the older Pequannock section lies to the south. Many addresses and businesses use the Pompton Plains name and its 07444 ZIP code. The Newark-Pompton Turnpike runs north to south through both and is the address of the public library and the township recreation department, while State Route 23 runs along the east side and Interstate 287 cuts across the northwest corner.
The Pompton River forms the eastern edge of the township and the county line, with Wayne across the water; the Pequannock River runs to the northeast, and Woodland Lake sits in the southeast corner. All of Pompton Plains drains to the Passaic River through the Pompton. About 475 acres of the township fall within the Highlands Preservation Area under the state Highlands Act, with the rest in the Highlands Planning Area.
The township grew from farmland into a railroad suburb in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the rail line still runs through the center of Pompton Plains, where the restored 1872 station stands on Evans Place. Neighboring municipalities include Riverdale to the north, Kinnelon to the west, Lincoln Park to the southwest and Pompton Lakes to the northeast.
State Route 23 is the main highway, running along the east side of the township; it leads south about five miles to Interstate 80 in Wayne and northwest toward Franklin in Sussex County. Interstate 287 crosses the northwest corner, with the nearest interchange at Route 23 in neighboring Riverdale. The Newark-Pompton Turnpike, the historic county road, carries local traffic through the center of town.
Passenger trains no longer stop in Pequannock; the Pompton Plains station closed to passengers in 1966. The closest NJ Transit station is Mountain View on Erie Avenue in Wayne, on the Montclair-Boonton Line, which has an accessible platform, Wi-Fi, bike racks and a free NJ Transit parking lot of about 230 spaces. As of October 2026, Midtown Direct trains on the Montclair-Boonton Line were being diverted to Hoboken during Portal Bridge cutover work, with PATH and NY Waterway connections into Manhattan, so riders should check current timetables.
Most errands are made by car along the turnpike and Route 23, though the library, recreation offices and old station area along the turnpike are close together in central Pompton Plains.
The Pequannock Township Public Library, at 477 Newark-Pompton Turnpike in Pompton Plains, is open six days a week and runs book clubs, trivia and movie nights, a seed library, a virtual speaker series, children's programs and a Library Fest, along with museum passes, meeting rooms and a lending collection that goes beyond books. The township's Parks and Recreation Department, at 530 Newark-Pompton Turnpike, offers programs ranging from children's crafts to day trips, along with active and passive recreation.
Two township-owned landmarks are being restored for public use. The 1872 Pompton Plains Railroad Station on Evans Place has been repaired with county preservation grants and is intended to become a town history museum. The Martin Berry House, an 18th-century stone farmhouse on the National Register, is in the later phases of rehabilitation as a living-history museum and community learning center, as of 2026 not yet open to the public.
The Pequannock Township Historical Society, a volunteer group that helped the township acquire the Martin Berry House in 2017, holds meetings that are open to all and is working to tell the township's history through the Martin Berry House. The rivers that frame the township, the Pompton, Pequannock and Ramapo, give the area its setting and are a reminder of the old Morris Canal feeder dam built nearby in 1827.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)20 miles away |
|---|---|
| Closer regional airport | Teterboro Airport (TEB)15 miles away |
| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ18 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY28 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Pequannock; 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.
Pequannock had 15,571 residents in the 2020 census, up 12% since 2000.
It’s the 166th 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 84°F in summer, and winter lows average 20°F. About 48.5 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Wanaque Raymond Dam, NJ weather station (6 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).
294 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Pequannock’s ZIP codes.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 31 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 76 |
| Dentists | 20 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 41 |
| Mental health providers | 56 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 63 |
| Optometrists | 3 |
| Chiropractors | 4 |
| Pharmacies | 5 |
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 (2 nearby)
Pharmacies (5 nearby)
Libraries (2 nearby)
Museums (1 nearby)
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 2 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 1740.
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 Pequannock Township School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Boulevard SchoolPompton Plains | Pre-K–5 | 326 | Public | 0.9 mi |
| Hillview SchoolPompton Plains | K–5 | 306 | Public | 0.2 mi |
| Stephen J. Gerace SchoolPequannock | K–5 | 334 | Public | 1.1 mi |
| Pequannock Valley SchoolPompton Plains | 6–8 | 476 | Public | 0.2 mi |
| Pequannock Township High SchoolPompton Plains | 9–12 | 655 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Spirit SchoolPequannock | Pre-K–8 | 213 | Roman Catholic | 0.7 mi |
| Kolbe Immaculata SchoolPequannock | 1–8 | 38 | Roman Catholic | 1.0 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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