Ringwood is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, home to about 11,657 people across 26 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07456.
Homes sold for a median of $302 per square foot in the three months ending August 2026, a seller’s market.
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Ringwood grew up around iron. In 1740 Cornelius Board bought a large tract here from the East Jersey Proprietors after finding magnetite ore, and in 1742 the Ogden family's Ringwood Company built the first blast furnace, the furnace pictured at the center of today's borough seal. Peter Hasenclever bought the works in 1764 for his American Iron Company and made Ringwood the hub of his holdings. Its last ironmaster, Robert Erskine, ran the works through the Revolutionary War, raised a militia company in 1775, and became the Continental Army's first Geographer and Surveyor-General, drawing more than 200 maps; George Washington visited at least five times, and Erskine died at Ringwood in 1780.
Martin J. Ryerson bought the ironworks in 1807 and built the first part of Ringwood Manor around 1810, a ten-room Federal-style house, and his family ran the mines and forges for about half a century. In 1853 Peter Cooper bought the 19,000-acre property, and his son Edward and partner Abram S. Hewitt operated it; Cooper & Hewitt supplied iron to the Union during the Civil War. After the Panic of 1873 and falling demand, the mines declined and eventually closed as the industry moved west, while the Hewitts enlarged the manor in 1864, 1875, 1900 and 1910 as a summer estate.
The New Jersey Legislature incorporated the Borough of Ringwood in 1918, the year shown on the border of the borough seal adopted in 1963. In 1938 the Hewitt family gave the manor, its contents and grounds to the State of New Jersey, which has run it as a museum and state park ever since. Ringwood Manor is now a National Historic Landmark District covering 582 acres of original buildings, gardens and landscape.
Ringwood sits in the Ramapo Mountains of the New Jersey Highlands, about 40 miles northwest of New York City, bordered by West Milford, Mahwah, Oakland and Wanaque. Elevations run from about 300 feet at the lakes to roughly 900 feet along Skyline Drive. The Wanaque Reservoir runs through the borough, and the whole of it lies in the Highlands Preservation Area; about two-thirds of its land is preserved as state parkland, water supply commission property and county parks.
Housing is almost entirely single-family detached homes, with only a small number of two-family and small multi-unit buildings. Most homes date from the 1950s through the 1970s, with the 1960s the busiest decade, and a share that predates 1950. Zoning lots run from 20,000 to 80,000 square feet. The borough has no public sewer system, so homes rely on septic, and many houses sit on wooded, sloping sites.
Much of the settled area is organized around lakes. Historic lake communities ring Cupsaw Lake, Erskine Lake, Upper Erskine Lake and Skyline Lake, and another band of neighborhoods lies east of the reservoir along Stonetown Road and parts of Westbrook Road; Peter's Mine Road is another named corridor. Borough Hall is on Margaret King Avenue, and the library and commuter lot are side by side on Cannici Drive off Skyline Drive. The Ringwood Public School District serves the borough's elementary and middle grades.
Ringwood is a driving town with a hilly road network. Greenwood Lake Turnpike and Ringwood Avenue are the main routes through the borough. Interstate 287 is reached two ways: Skyline Drive runs south over the ridge to Exit 57 in Oakland, and Ringwood Avenue (County Route 511) leads to Exit 55 in Wanaque. The borough notes that Skyline Drive and other roads can close in heavy snow and keeps a phone line for closure updates.
NJ Transit buses connect Ringwood with Manhattan. Route 196 stops at the Ringwood Park & Ride and along Greenwood Lake Turnpike, including at Margaret King Avenue, on its way to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Route 197 also reaches the Port Authority Bus Terminal and adds local stops along Ringwood Avenue, including at Skyline Lake Drive and Conklintown Road, continuing through Wanaque and Pompton Lakes and calling at Willowbrook Mall and the Willowbrook Park & Ride.
The Park & Ride sits on Cannici Drive, off Skyline Drive next to the library. Parking there requires a borough permit, sold annually through the Borough Clerk's office, with one-day permits available through the police dispatch desk up to twice a month. There is no commuter rail station in the borough, so riders check current NJ Transit schedules for bus times.
Ringwood State Park covers about 4,444 acres in four areas: Ringwood Manor, Skylands Manor with the New Jersey Botanical Garden, Shepherd Lake and Bear Swamp Lake. Its roughly 50 miles of trails are maintained by New York-New Jersey Trail Conference volunteers, and leashed dogs are allowed.
Ringwood Manor, at 1304 Sloatsburg Road, is a historic house museum furnished with collections from the Ryerson, Cooper and Hewitt families, set among gardens and the remains of the iron era. Its seasonal calendar has included a Victorian Christmas, evening holiday concerts and a holiday fine arts and crafts sale. Nearby, the New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands, listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, has 96 acres of gardens inside about 1,000 acres of woods, with perennial, lilac, Italianate, wildflower and pollinator gardens, a crabapple allee, the Skylands Manor House and a scale-model Solar System Walk. Garden admission is free, free guided tours have run on Sunday afternoons from May through October, and a parking fee applies on summer weekends and holidays.
The Ringwood Public Library on Cannici Drive lends museum passes and a Library of Things that includes games, science kits and A/V equipment, and runs a regular calendar of book sales, children's programs and groups such as a sketching circle.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)28 miles away |
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| Closer regional airport | Teterboro Airport (TEB)20 miles away |
| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ26 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY34 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Ringwood; 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.
Ringwood had 11,735 residents in the 2020 census, down 5% since 2000.
It’s the 217th 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 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 (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).
52 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Ringwood.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 6 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 1 |
| Dentists | 6 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 3 |
| Mental health providers | 22 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 10 |
| Optometrists | 1 |
| Chiropractors | 3 |
| Pharmacies | 1 |
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 (2 nearby)
Grocery stores (1 nearby)
Pharmacies
Libraries (3 nearby)
Museums
Theaters and performance venues
Counts are within about 3.5 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 1918.
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 Ringwood School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Cooper SchoolRingwood | K–3 | 235 | Public | 1.8 mi |
| Robert Erskine SchoolRingwood | K–3 | 169 | Public | 0.1 mi |
| Eleanor G. HewittRingwood | 4–5 | 208 | Public | 1.9 mi |
| Martin J. Ryerson SchoolRingwood | 6–8 | 345 | Public | 1.6 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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