Palisades Park, New Jersey
Palisades Park, New Jersey | |
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Aerial view in 2021 | |
Location of Palisades Park in Bergen County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Bergen County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (right). | |
Census Bureau map of Palisades Park, New Jersey | |
Location in Bergen County Location in New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: 40°50′49″N 73°59′49″W / 40.847017°N 73.997061°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Bergen |
| Incorporated | March 22, 1899 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Borough |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | Chong "Paul" Kim (D, term ends December 31, 2026) |
| • Administrator | David J. Lorenzo |
| • Municipal clerk | Gina S. Kim |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.28 sq mi (3.32 km2) |
| • Land | 1.24 sq mi (3.21 km2) |
| • Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.11 km2) 3.28% |
| • Rank | 474th of 565 in state 60th of 70 in county |
| Elevation | 112 ft (34 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 20,292 |
• Estimate (2023) | 20,102 |
| • Rank | 136th of 565 in state 15th of 70 in county |
| • Density | 16,377.7/sq mi (6,323.5/km2) |
| • Rank | 14th of 565 in state 3rd of 70 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 07650 |
| Area code(s) | 201 |
| FIPS code | 3400355770 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885338 |
| Website | mypalisadespark |
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Palisades Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 20,292, an increase of 670 (+3.4%) from the 2010 census count of 19,622, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,549 (+14.9%) from the 17,073 counted in the 2000 census.
The borough of Palisades Park was created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 22, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township. A portion of its area was annexed by the neighboring borough of Fort Lee in April 1909. The borough was named for its location atop the New Jersey Palisades.
It is one of the largest and fastest-growing ethnic Korean enclaves outside of Korea. Koreans comprise the majority (65%) of the population of the borough of Palisades Park, the municipality with the highest density of ethnic Koreans in the Western Hemisphere and the home of both the highest Korean-American density and percentage of any municipality in the United States. It has been called Koreatown on the Hudson and Little Korea. The borough's population has grown by 40% since the 1990 census, accelerated by zoning laws that permit duplex homes on land previously containing a single-family detached home.