Bergen County · ~46,630 residents
46,630
Residents
37
Legislative district
3
Legislators
1
Abortion facility
Hackensack is the county seat of Bergen County, a city of about 47,000 on the river of the same name.
Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in New Jersey. The 1800 federal census counted 2,825 enslaved residents here — 18.6% of everyone living in the county, nearly one person in five. Slavery in Bergen was not a southern institution observed from a distance; it was the ordinary arrangement of the Dutch farm households that built this county, and Hackensack was its seat throughout. New Jersey then freed nobody living in 1804, renamed the remaining enslaved as "apprentices" in 1846, and still held eighteen people in 1860.
Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in the state. In the 1800 census, 2,825 of its residents were enslaved — 18.6% of everyone living here. Slavery in Bergen was not a southern institution observed from a distance; it was the ordinary arrangement of Dutch farm households across the county.
Source: 1800 federal census, as compiled by the New Jersey Slavery Records project
Abortion reporting to the CDC is voluntary, and New Jersey is one of four jurisdictions that declines. Its own Department of Health publishes no count of induced terminations, by county or statewide. The state that wrote abortion access into its statutes does not record how often it happens.
There is no figure for Hackensack, or for Bergen County, because there is no figure for anywhere in New Jersey. The best available independent estimate is 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians statewide in 2025.
Sources: CDC, Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 (MMWR Surveillance Summaries) · Guttmacher Institute, Monthly Abortion Provision Study
One abortion facility operates in Hackensack, a Planned Parenthood health centre on Main Street:
Planned Parenthood — Hackensack Health Center
575 Main Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601
(833) 377-8474
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Hackensack is in Legislative District 37, which it shares with Englewood. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Hackensack is in District 37. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this city in Trenton.
“No recorded vote” means the member was not serving when the bill was voted on in January 10, 2022. It is not an abstention, and we do not present it as one.
Senate · District 37 · Democrat
Assembly · District 37 · Democrat
Assembly · District 37 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in Hackensack that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Hackensack. We read every New Jersey congregation in the directory we work from — 106 of them — and found one in the whole state, in Glassboro. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, lists the same single church on its New Jersey page and no others. That is not a gap in the research. It is the situation.
If your church has taken a public position on abolition — from the pulpit, in a resolution, or in its own published words — tell us and we will verify it and list it here.
Hackensack is in Legislative District 37, which it shares with Englewood. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
More than anywhere else in New Jersey. The 1800 census counted 2,825 enslaved people in Bergen County — 18.6% of its entire population. Hudson County, created out of Bergen in 1840, and Passaic, created from Bergen and Essex in 1837, were both part of it at the time.
New Jersey does not report the figure and publishes no count of its own at any geography. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians in the state in 2025.
