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Bergenfield borough, New Jersey: commercial real estate data.
Bergenfield borough is a Census borough of 28,450 people across 2.90 square miles of land, in Bergen County. Median household income is $130,045, 70.6 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 39 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $9.7 m.
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Bergenfield
What Bergenfield is
- Census place typeborough
- Land area2.9 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land9,796
- County holding the largest share of its areaBergen County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bergenfield
How many people live in Bergenfield
- Population28,450
- Median age40.7
- Population under 186,033
- Share under 1821.2 percent
- Population 65 and over4,780
- Share 65 and over16.8 percent
- Households9,322
- Family households7,180
- Share of households that are families77.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bergenfield
Income and work in Bergenfield
- Median household income$130,045
- Per capita income$48,968
- Civilian labor force15,709
- Employed14,730
- Unemployed979 plus or minus 331
- Unemployment rate6.2 percent plus or minus 2.1
- Adults 25 and over19,546
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher48.3 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree14.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bergenfield
Housing in Bergenfield
- Housing units9,479
- Occupied units9,322
- Vacant units157 plus or minus 86
- Vacancy rate1.7 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Owner occupied6,578
- Renter occupied2,744
- Ownership rate70.6 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$491,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,752
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.2 percent
- Single family units6,934
- Share single family73.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more2,545
- Share in buildings of two or more26.8 percent
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1954
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bergenfield
How Bergenfield gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute13,103
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,590
- Share commuting under 15 minutes19.8 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6,474
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more49.4 percent
- Drove alone67.9 percent
- Carpooled9.6 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Public transport9.8 percent plus or minus 2.6
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Worked from home8.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bergenfield
SBA 7(a) lending to Bergenfield borrowers
- Approvals39
- Gross approval$9,659,400
- Average approval$247,677
- Median approval$113,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$612,600
- Largest approval$1,575,000
- Jobs supported192
- Jobs per approval4.9
- Loans with a final outcome5
- Paid in full2
- Charged off3
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more12.8 percent
- Share to franchises2.6 percent
- Distinct lenders17
- Distinct industries by NAICS31
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 5 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Bergenfield
SBA 504 lending to Bergenfield borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$1,344,000
- Average approval$448,000
- Median approval$327,000
- Largest approval$735,000
- Jobs supported27
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Bergen County, not Bergenfield
Bergen County context, not Bergenfield figures
These are Bergen County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bergenfield measurements.
- Establishments in Bergen County31,818
- Employment at those establishments, Bergen County441,870
- Covered employment, Bergen County438,240
- Average annual pay, Bergen County$80,639
- Average weekly wage, Bergen County$1,551
- Housing units permitted, Bergen County3,329
- Of those, single family, Bergen County1,450
- County product, 2024, Bergen County$105,804,508,000
- County product change over the prior year, Bergen County3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Bergen County$129,007
Every figure in this section is published for Bergen County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bergenfield. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Bergenfield questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bergenfield, New Jersey?
28,450, in 9,322 households. Bergenfield borough covers 2.90 square miles of land, which is 9,796 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bergenfield in?
Bergen County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Bergenfield?
$130,045. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $491,500. Median gross rent is $1,752 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bergenfield businesses?
39 7(a) approvals totalling $9.7 m, across 17 lenders, median approval $113,000, plus 3 504 approvals worth $1.3 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bergenfield, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bergenfield borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bergenfield. only 5 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Bergenfield figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Bergen County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Bergenfield.
Is zoning published for Bergenfield?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.