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About Paterson, New Jersey
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Paterson, New Jersey
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Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, pictured July 2016
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The Silk City
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Spe et Labore (Latin)
“By hope and effort” |
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Location of Paterson in Passaic County highlighted in yellow (left). Inset map: Location of Passaic County in New Jersey highlighted in black (right).
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Census Bureau map of Paterson, New Jersey
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 Paterson
Location in Passaic County
Paterson
Location in New Jersey
Paterson
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| Country |  ย United States |
| State |  ย New Jersey |
| County | Passaic |
| Established | November 22, 1791 |
| Incorporated | April 11, 1831 (as township) |
| Reincorporated | April 14, 1851 (as city) |
| Named for | William Paterson |
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| ย โขย Type | Faulkner Act Mayor-Council |
| ย โขย Body | City Council |
| ย โขย Mayor | Andre Sayegh (term ends June 30, 2026) |
| ย โขย Business Administrator | Kathleen Long |
| ย โขย Municipal clerk | Sonia Gordon |
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| ย โขย Total | 8.71ย sqย mi (22.55ย km2) |
| ย โขย Land | 8.41ย sqย mi (21.79ย km) |
| ย โขย Water | 0.29ย sqย mi (0.76ย km2) ย 3.38% |
| ย โขย Rank | 224th of 565 in state 7th of 16 in county |
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112ย ft (34.1376ย m) |
| Population
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| ย โขย Total | 159,732 |
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156,661 |
| ย โขย Rank | 165th in country (as of 2022) 3rd of 565 in state 1st of 16 in county |
| ย โขย Density | 18,986.3/sqย mi (7,330.7/km2) |
| ย ย โขย Rank | 11th of 565 in state 2nd of 16 in county |
| Time zone | UTCโ05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| ย โขย Summer (DST) | UTCโ04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
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07501-07505, 07508-07514, 07522, 07524, 07533, 07538, 07543, 07544
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| Area code(s) | 201 and 973 |
| FIPS code | 3403157000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885343 |
| Website | www |
Paterson ( PAT-ษr-sษn) is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city was the state’s third-most-populous municipality, with a population of 159,732, an increase of 13,533 (+9.3%) from the 2010 census complement of 146,199, which in approach reflected a decline of 3,023 (-2.0%) from the 149,222 counted in the 2000 census. The Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program calculated that the city’s population was 156,661 in 2022, ranking the city as the 165th-most-populous in the country.
A prominent mill town within the New York area, Paterson has been known as the Silk City for its once-dominant role in silk production during the latter half of the 19th century. It has before evolved into a major destination for Hispanic immigrants as competently as for immigrants from Turkey, the Arab world, and South Asia. Paterson has the nation’s second-largest per capita Muslim population.
The Place of Paterson was inhabited by the Algonquian-speaking Native American Acquackanonk tribe of the Lenape, also known as the Delaware Indians. The land was known as the Lenapehoking. The Dutch claimed the estate as New Netherlands, followed by the British as the Province of New Jersey.