Rockleigh, New Jersey
Rockleigh, New Jersey | |
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Location of Rockleigh in Bergen County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Bergen County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (right). | |
Census Bureau map of Rockleigh, New Jersey | |
Location in Bergen County Location in New Jersey | |
| Coordinates: 41°00′01″N 73°56′03″W / 41.000241°N 73.934068°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Bergen |
| Incorporated | April 10, 1923 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Borough |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | James G. Pontone (R, term ends December 31, 2026) |
| • Administrator | William J. McGuire |
| • Municipal clerk | Marcella Giampiccolo |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.01 sq mi (2.62 km2) |
| • Land | 1.00 sq mi (2.60 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.02 km2) 0.69% |
| • Rank | 498th of 565 in state 66th of 70 in county |
| Elevation | 49 ft (15 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 407 |
• Estimate (2023) | 405 |
| • Rank | 557th of 565 in state 69th of 70 in county |
| • Density | 407.0/sq mi (157.1/km2) |
| • Rank | 458th of 565 in state 68th of 70 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 07647 |
| Area code(s) | 201 exchanges: 750, 767, 768, 784 |
| FIPS code | 3400364170 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885375 |
| Website | www |
Rockleigh (pronounced ROCK-lee) is a borough in northeastern Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 407, a decrease of 124 (−23.4%) from the 2010 census count of 531, which in turn reflected an increase of 140 (+35.8%) from the 391 counted in the 2000 census. Bordering Alpine, a community ranked America's most expensive ZIP Code by Forbes, Rockleigh has a similar residential character, with large single-family homes on large plots of land.
Rockleigh was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 13, 1923 (based on the results of a referendum held on April 10, 1923) from portions of Northvale. The borough was named for a property in Virginia that had been owned by the borough's first mayor.
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Rockleigh as its 13th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.