Jersey City, New Jersey
| Jersey City, New Jersey | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Jersey City
Steve Fulop | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2021 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Last city council election: | 2021 |
| Next city council election: | 2025 |
| City council seats: | 9 |
| City website | |
| Composition data | |
| Population: | 292,449 |
| Race: | White 27.3% African American 19.9% Asian 28% Native American 0.7% Pacific Islander 0.1% Multiple 9.7% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic or Latino origin 24.9% |
| Median household income: | $94,813 |
| High school graduation rate: | 90.5% |
| College graduation rate: | 53.1% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census and 2023 ACS data. Percentages are rounded to the nearest 0.1%. | |
| Related Jersey City offices | |
| New Jersey Congressional Delegation New Jersey State Legislature New Jersey state executive offices | |
Jersey City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey. The city's population was 292,449 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Jersey City utilizes a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive.[1][2]
Mayor
The mayor serves as the city's chief executive and is responsible for proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also represents the city at the state, national, and international levels. The current Mayor of Jersey City is Steve Fulop (nonpartisan). Fulop assumed office in 2013.[2]
City council
The Jersey City City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[1]
The Jersey City City Council has nine members. Six members are elected by the city's six wards, and three members are elected at large.[3]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Mayoral partisanship
Jersey City has a Democratic mayor. As of September 2025, 66 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 23 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, three are independents, five identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2025
The city of Jersey City, New Jersey, is holding general elections for mayor and city council on November 4, 2025. A runoff election is scheduled for December 2, 2025. The filing deadline for this election was August 21, 2025.
2021
The city of Jersey City, New Jersey, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 2, 2021. A runoff election, if necessary, was held on December 7, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was August 30, 2021.[4]
2020
The city of Jersey City, New Jersey, held a special general election for City Council Ward D on November 3, 2020. The filing deadline for this election was August 31, 2020.
2019
On November 5, 2019, Jersey City voters voted on Municipal Question 1, a veto referendum concerning short-term rental property regulations and permit requirements. Click here to read more about this local measure.
There was also a statewide measure—Public Question 1—on the November 2019 ballot. It was designed to extend an existing $250 property tax deduction for veterans to continuing care retirement centers on behalf of the veterans living there and require the retirement centers to pass the value of the deduction on to veterans in the form of credits or payments.
2017
The city of Jersey City, New Jersey, held a general election for mayor, three at large city council seats, and six by district city council seats on November 7, 2017. Any race where no candidate earns a majority of the votes cast in the general election advanced to the runoff election on December 5, 2017.
This was the first election cycle following the passage of Public Question 1 in 2016. The measure, which passed with over 57 percent approval at the polls, moved the city's election dates from a May primary and June general election to a November general election and December runoff.
2016
A special election for Jersey City, New Jersey, was held on November 8, 2016, to choose who would fill the remainder of resigned Ward B Councilman Khemraj "Chico" Ramchal. Voters also approved a referendum question on the same date which shifts the city's normal general election cycle from May to November.
2013
Jersey City, New Jersey, held general elections for its mayor and all nine city council seats on May 14, 2013. Six incumbents sought re-election, including the mayor. Only two kept their seats: Council-At-Large member Rolando Lavarro Jr. and Ward F representative Deborah King. Ward E incumbent Steven Fulop defeated incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy.
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Jersey City | |
|---|---|
| Jersey City | |
| Population | 292,449 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 14 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 28.7% |
| Black/African American | 21.5% |
| Asian | 25.8% |
| Native American | 0.7% |
| Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| Other (single race) | 9.6% |
| Multiple | 13.6% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 25.7% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 90.5% |
| College graduation rate | 53.1% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $94,813 |
| Persons below poverty level | 15.6% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2018-2023). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by calendar years running from January 1 to December 31.[5] The mayor is responsible for preparing the budget in consultation with the city's finance department. State law requires that public hearings be held on the proposed budget, after which the mayor presents the budget to the city council for approval. Budget approval requires a majority vote of the council members.[6]
Revenue and expenditure by year
The total revenue and expenditure figures were pulled from the all funds revenue and expenditures tables in the city's annual financial reports.[5][7][8][9]
| City of Jersey City historical revenue and expenditures | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Calendar year | Budget type | Total revenue | Total expenditure |
| 2024 | Adopted | $736,401,149 | $734,131,531 |
| 2023 | Adopted | $703,578,008 | $701,380,029 |
| 2022 | Introduced | $697,311,805 | $685,422,398 |
| 2021 | Adopted | $626,251,923 | $626,251,923 |
| 2020 | Actual | $677,950,748 | $667,827,122 |
| 2020 | Adopted | $682,295,031 | $658,271,395 |
| 2019 | Actual | $635,106,425 | $625,668,665 |
| 2019 | Adopted | $625,029,207 | $639,429,207 |
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Contact information
Mayor's office
280 Grove Street
Second Floor
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: 201-547-5200
City Clerk's office
280 Grove Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302
Phone: 201-547-5150
Click here for city council contact information.
Ballot measures
The city of Jersey City is in Hudson County. A list of ballot measures in Hudson County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Jersey City, following the death of George Floyd.
2015: Tax revaluation
On November 18, 2015, state officials informed Jersey City that it was under investigation to determine whether the city should be directed to conduct a tax revaluation. The last revaluation had been completed in 1988. After the investigation, the state treasurer directed the city to complete a revaluation by November 1, 2017.
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Jersey City, New Jersey, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[10]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jersey City Code of Ordinances, "Article II - Council," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jersey City Code of Ordinances, "Article III - Mayor," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ City of Jersey City, "City Council," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ NJ.gov, "2021 General Election Timeline," accessed March 1, 2021
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 City of Jersey City, "CY 2021 Adopted Budget," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ Jersey City Code of Ordinances, "Article XIII - Department of Finance," accessed September 30, 2021
- ↑ City of Jersey City, "2022 Municipal User Friendly Budget," accessed October 20, 2022
- ↑ City of Jersey City, "2023 Municipal User Friendly Budget," accessed October 3, 2023
- ↑ City of Jersey City, "2024 Municipal User Friendly Budget," accessed October 29, 2024
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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