Saddle Brook is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, home to about 14,419 people across 2.7 square miles. Its ZIP code is 07663.
Homes sold for a median of $451 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 Saddle Brook. Seller’s market: under 4 months of supply; buyer’s market: over 6. Methodology
The low ground between the Saddle and Passaic rivers was shaped by glacial Lake Hackensack, which reached as far north as Saddle Brook and left wetlands behind when it drained. Lenape communities, among them the Aquakanonks around Passaic and the Ackensackies around Hackensack, used the land. In 1680 the surveyor Jacques Cortelyou bought a large tract from the Aquakanonks that took in present-day Garfield, Saddle Brook and areas to the north, and a patent confirmed it in 1685. Saddle River Township appears in Bergen County records by 1716, created from county land west of the Saddle River, and in 1798 it became one of New Jersey's original townships under the state's Township Act. Local accounts hold that Outwater Lane served as an escape route during Washington's retreat in 1776.
Farming carried the township through the 1800s, when two rail lines arrived: the Bergen County Short Cut, a branch of the Erie, and the New York, Susquehanna and Western. Over the same decades, Saddle River Township gave up land again and again as new boroughs formed, including Garfield in 1898, East Paterson (now Elmwood Park) in 1916 and Fair Lawn in 1924. In the early 1900s a small industrial area grew along Market Street, Midland Avenue and Fifth Street, and more residents commuted to jobs in Passaic and Paterson; the trolley on South Broadway ran until 1936.
After World War II, farms gave way to houses quickly, and the population grew fastest in the 1940s. Because mail kept going astray among Saddle River Township, the Borough of Saddle River and Upper Saddle River, voters chose a new name, Saddle Brook, in the mid-1950s. The township marked its tercentenary in 2015.
Saddle Brook is a small township of residential streets bounded by the Passaic River on the west, with the Saddle River, which gave the township its old name, and the Saddle River County Park path along the other side. Much of today's housing went up after World War II on former farmland; streets such as Floral Lane were small farms and greenhouses before the postwar building wave. Apartment buildings add to the mix, among them the complex at 140 Mayhill Street, built on what was once the township's last marsh.
Market Street is the main commercial street. The old Town Hall at 93-95 Market Street has been designated for rehabilitation, with plans allowing apartments over stores or a fully commercial building, and municipal offices have moved to 55 Mayhill Street, near the Free Public Library at 340 Mayhill Street. Market Street, Midland Avenue and Fifth Street are also where the township's small industrial area grew in the early 1900s. Coalberg and Passaic Junction, the site of a Susquehanna railroad yard, are local place names within the township's borders.
The township's own history notes that the wetlands left by Lake Hackensack contribute to local flooding. Saddle Brook Public Schools serves the township from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade.
Highways define Saddle Brook. Interstate 80 crosses the township with an interchange at Exit 62, and the Garden State Parkway runs through the center, meeting I-80 at Parkway Exit 159. U.S. Route 46 clips the southwest corner, and Routes 4 and 17 run just beyond the township line. The township's own history credits the highway hotels that rose near these interchanges with putting Saddle Brook on the map for travelers.
The nearest train station is Plauderville, just over the line in Garfield, on NJ Transit's Bergen County Line. Trains run south to Secaucus Junction, where riders change for Penn Station New York, and continue to Hoboken Terminal, with PATH and ferry connections to Manhattan.
Buses are the main transit link. NJ Transit routes 144, 145, 148, 160, 161 and 164 run to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, and routes 707, 712 and 758 connect to other North Jersey towns. The township's website also links to the request form for Bergen County's Ride Connect service. Schedules change, so current times are on NJ Transit's site.
Saddle River County Park, a 577-acre linear park along the Saddle River and Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, has a multi-use path of about six miles that runs from Ridgewood to Rochelle Park and passes through Saddle Brook. From the Rochelle Park section, walkers and cyclists can cross a footbridge and loop back along the Saddle Brook side of the river. Elsewhere along the path are three ponds, a waterfall at Dunkerhook and the Historic Easton Tower near Route 4, and park amenities include picnic grounds, a pavilion, tennis and basketball courts, a softball field and an accessible playground.
The Free Public Library is at 340 Mayhill Street, and the Recreation Center runs open gym hours and a long list of youth sports, from wrestling and lacrosse to track and field. The township calendar includes a town-wide garage sale each October.
The Saddle Brook Historical Society, organized in 1981, collects old photographs, newspaper clippings and oral histories. Its township historian's book, Saddle Brook: A Portrait of Our Past, traces the area from prehistoric times and is sold through the Township Clerk.
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Get matched| Nearest major airport | LaGuardia Airport (LGA)15 miles away |
|---|---|
| Closer regional airport | Teterboro Airport (TEB)4 miles away |
| Nearest city of 250,000+ | Newark, NJ13 miles away |
| Nearest city of 1 million+ | New York, NY19 miles away |
Straight-line distances from the center of Saddle Brook; 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.
Saddle Brook had 14,294 residents in the 2020 census, up 9% since 2000.
It’s the 186th largest of 565 towns in New Jersey by population.
Bergen County grew from 78,441 residents in 1900 to 955,732 in 2020.
Bergen County, 1900–2020
Source: U.S. Census Bureau decennial censuses (counties 1900–1990 from the Bureau’s historical county file).
Average highs peak around 87°F in summer, and winter lows average 26°F. About 46.4 inches of rain and melted snow fall in a typical year.
Source: NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Teterboro Ap, NJ weather station (4 miles away).
441,870 jobs at 31,818 businesses in Bergen County. The biggest industries by employees:
Source: U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023 (private employers; jobs counted where people work).
170 doctors and other health care providers list an office in Saddle Brook.
Nearest hospitals
Providers with an office here
| Primary care doctors | 6 |
|---|---|
| Specialist doctors | 23 |
| Dentists | 15 |
| Nurse practitioners and physician assistants | 13 |
| Mental health providers | 17 |
| Physical and occupational therapists | 81 |
| Optometrists | 2 |
| Chiropractors | 13 |
| Pharmacies | 9 |
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 (5 nearby)
Grocery stores (3 nearby)
Pharmacies (2 nearby)
Libraries (3 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 1716.
Source: Wikidata (wikidata.org), the free knowledge base; people are listed by place of birth.
Public schools here are run by Saddle Brook School District. Check each district’s attendance zones for a specific address.
| School | Grades | Students | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington SchoolSaddle Brook | Pre-K | 58 | Special Education | 0.6 mi |
| Franklin SchoolSaddle Brook | K–6 | 328 | Public | 0.7 mi |
| Helen I. Smith SchoolSaddle Brook | K–6 | 340 | Public | 0.6 mi |
| Salome H. Long Memorial SchoolSaddle Brook | K–6 | 304 | Public | 0.9 mi |
| Saddle Brook Middle/High SchoolSaddle Brook | 7–12 | 806 | Public | 0.3 mi |
| School | Grades | Students | Affiliation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursery Rhymes Preschool & KindergartenSaddle Brook | Pre-K–K | 2 | Nonsectarian | 0.7 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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