Bergen County · ~25,806 residents
25,806
Residents
39
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Mahwah is the northernmost township in Bergen County, on the New York line, with about 26,000 residents.
Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in New Jersey — 2,825 in the 1800 census, 18.6% of everyone living here. Slavery in Bergen was the ordinary arrangement of Dutch farm households, and it persisted: New Jersey freed nobody living in 1804, renamed the remaining enslaved as "apprentices" bound to their owners in 1846, still counted eighteen people held in 1860, and voted the Thirteenth Amendment down in March 1865 before ratifying it the following January, after it was already the law.
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 Mahwah, 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
No abortion facility in our directory operates inside Mahwah. The nearest recorded ones are in Hackensack and Englewood.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Mahwah Township.
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Mahwah is in Legislative District 39. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Mahwah Township is in District 39. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality 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 39 · Republican
Assembly · District 39 · Republican
Assembly · District 39 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Mahwah Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Mahwah Township. 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.
Mahwah is in Legislative District 39, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
More than in any other New Jersey county. The 1800 census counted 2,825 enslaved people in Bergen, 18.6% of its population.
The immediate and total end of abortion, criminalised as homicide, with no exceptions, from fertilisation.
