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Welcome to the Irvington Home page. The Irvington Home page provides as much information as possible on Irvington. Knowing Irvington’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Irvington’s Home page, you will also find Irvington’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Irvington has a population of 54220. 47.9% of Irvington’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.1 are female. 26.5% of Irvington is married and 27.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $211,731, and the average rent is $1,089. Household median income in Irvington is $44,898, and the individual median income is $28,577. Irvington’s Ethnic is the following: Black(87.1%), Hispanic(8.5%), White(6.2%), Multiple(3.2%), Other(2.3%), Asian(0.7%), Native(0.5%).


Clinton Township, which included what is now Irvington, Maplewood and parts of Newark and South Orange, was created on April 14, 1834. The area was known as Camptown until the mid-1800s. In 1850, after Stephen Foster published his ballad, Camptown Races, residents were concerned that the activities described in the song would be associated with their community.


The town was renamed, Irvingtown, in honor of Washington Irving.Irvington was incorporated as an independent village on March 27, 1874, from portions of Clinton Township. What remained of Clinton Township was absorbed into Newark on March 5, 1902. On March 2, 1898, Irvington was incorporated as a Town, replacing Irvington Village.


In 1982, the town was one of four Essex County municipalities to pass a referendum to become a township, joining 11 municipalities that had already made the change, of what would ultimately be more than a dozen Essex County municipalities to reclassify themselves as townships in order take advantage of federal revenue sharing policies that allocated townships a greater share of government aid to municipalities on a per capita basis.From 1887 to 1965, Irvington was home to Olympic Park, a 40-acre (16 ha) amusement park that straddled the border of Irvington and Maplewood, with the main entrance on Chancellor Avenue and a side entrance on 40th Street.


After the park closed, the merry-go-round was sold and transported to Disney World, in Orlando, FL. The book, Smile: A Picture History of Olympic Park, 1887–1965 written by Alan A. Siegel was published in 1983 by Rutgers University Press.The 1967 Newark riots hastened an exodus of families from that city, many of them moving a few short blocks into neighboring Irvington.


Until 1965, Irvington was almost exclusively white. By 1980, the town was nearly 40% black; by 1990 it was 70%.On July 1, 1980, Fred Bost, was sworn in as East Ward Councilman, making him the first black person to serve on the Town Council. At age 24, Michael G. Steele became the first black elected to public office in Irvington when he won a seat on the school board on March 25, 1980, then became the township's first black mayor ten years later, when he was elected in 1990 and served for four years, followed by Sarah Brockington Bost in 1994.


In 1994 Steele returned to the Board of Education to pursue his career as the district's certified School Business Administrator, serving over 22 years. The current Mayor is Tony Vauss.


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