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Rahway, New Jersey
City in Union County, New Jersey, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rahway (/ˈrɔːweɪ/) is a city in southern Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A bedroom community of New York City, it is centrally located in the Rahway Valley region, in the New York metropolitan area.[18] The city is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Staten Island.
Rahway, New Jersey | |
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![]() Location of Rahway in Union County, New Jersey (left). Inset map: Location of Union County in New Jersey. | |
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Coordinates: 40.607152°N 74.280531°W / 40.607152; -74.280531[1] | |
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County | Union |
Incorporated | April 19, 1858 |
Government | |
• Type | Faulkner Act (mayor–council) |
• Body | City Council |
• Mayor | Raymond A. Giacobbe Jr. (D, term ends December 31, 2026)[3][4] |
• Business administrator | Jonathan Parham[5] |
• Municipal clerk | Jeffrey Jotz[6] |
Area | |
• Total | 4.04 sq mi (10.47 km2) |
• Land | 3.90 sq mi (10.09 km2) |
• Water | 0.14 sq mi (0.38 km2) 3.59% |
• Rank | 295th of 565 in state 12th of 21 in county[8] |
Elevation | 23 ft (7 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 29,556 |
• Estimate | 29,813 |
• Rank | 81st of 565 in state 6th of 21 in county[12] |
• Density | 7,586.2/sq mi (2,929.0/km2) |
• Rank | 58th of 565 in state 7th of 21 in county[12] |
Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern Standard Time (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
ZIP Code | |
Area code(s) | 732[15] |
FIPS code | 3403961530[8][16][17] |
GNIS feature ID | 0885363[1] |
Website | www |
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Built on the navigable Rahway River, it was an industrial and artisanal craft city for much of its history. The city has increasingly reinvented itself in recent years as a diverse regional hub for the arts[19][20] and biological sciences, with a new global headquarters for Merck & Co.
As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 29,556,[9][10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 2,210 (+8.1%) from the 27,346 recorded at the 2010 census,[21][22] which in turn reflected an increase of 846 (+3.2%) from the 26,500 counted in the 2000 census.[23]