Hudson County · ~52,975 residents
52,975
Residents
33
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
West New York is the most densely populated municipality of New Jersey's fifty largest: about 53,000 people living on 0.99 square miles, roughly 53,000 to the square mile. It is a town in Hudson County, not a part of New York.
It was Bergen County until 1840 — the county that held more enslaved people than any other in New Jersey, 2,825 of them in the 1800 census, 18.6% of its whole population. The state 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 down the Thirteenth Amendment in March 1865 before ratifying it in January 1866, after it had already become law without them.
Hudson County did not exist until 22 February 1840. Everything in it — Jersey City, Bayonne, Hoboken, Union City, North Bergen, West New York — was part of Bergen County before that, and Bergen held more enslaved people than any other county in the state: 2,825 of them in the 1800 census, 18.6% of everyone living there. The county line moved. The history did not.
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 West New York, or for Hudson 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 West New York.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside West New York.
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West New York is in Legislative District 33 with Union City and North Bergen. Its three legislators are below.
West New York is in District 33. 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 33 · Democrat
Assembly · District 33 · Democrat
Assembly · District 33 · Democrat
Congregations we know of in West New York that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in West New York. 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.
No. West New York is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, in Legislative District 33. It faces Manhattan across the Hudson, which is where the name comes from.
West New York is in Legislative District 33, shared with Union City and North Bergen. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
New Jersey does not report the figure and publishes no count of its own. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
