Passaic County · ~54,096 residents
54,096
Residents
40
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Wayne is a township of about 54,000 in the north-west of Passaic County, along the Pompton and Passaic rivers.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 out of parts of Bergen and Essex — in the 1800 census, the first and sixth counties in New Jersey by enslaved population. Bergen held 2,825 people, 18.6% of everyone living there; Essex held 1,521. This ground was inside those counties while that was true, in a state that would take until 1865 to finish letting go, and would vote against the Thirteenth Amendment before doing so.
Passaic County was created on 7 February 1837 from parts of Bergen and Essex. Those were the first and sixth counties in New Jersey by enslaved population in 1800 — Bergen with 2,825 people held, Essex with 1,521. Paterson, Clifton, Passaic and Wayne were inside them.
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 Wayne, or for Passaic 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 Wayne Township. The nearest recorded one is the Planned Parenthood centre in Paterson.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Wayne Township.
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Wayne is in Legislative District 40. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Wayne Township is in District 40. 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 40 · Republican
Assembly · District 40 · Republican
Assembly · District 40 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Wayne Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Wayne 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.
Wayne is in Legislative District 40, which elects one senator and two assembly members. All three are listed on this page.
The Planned Parenthood centre on Broadway in Paterson, the county seat. Every facility we know of in the state is mapped on our abortion facilities page.
No. Neither a bill of abolition nor an equal-protection bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
