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Woodbridge, NJ - History


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

Woodbridge has a population of 99788. 50.6% of Woodbridge’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.4 are female. 53.9% of Woodbridge is married and 66.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $322,104, and the average rent is $1,634. Household median income in Woodbridge is $93,179, and the individual median income is $42,317. Woodbridge’s Ethnic is the following: White(54%), Asian(23.4%), Hispanic(22.7%), Black(11.9%), Other(5.3%), Multiple(4.9%), Native(0.5%).


Woodbridge Township is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is both a regional hub for Central New Jersey and a major bedroom suburb of New York City in the New York metropolitan area located within the core of the Raritan Valley region. As of the 2020 United States census, the township was the state's seventh-most-populous municipality, with a population of 103,639, an increase of 4,054 (+4.1%) from the 2010 census count of 99,585, which in turn reflected an increase of 2,382 (+2.5%) from the 97,203 counted in the 2000 census.Woodbridge was the state's sixth-largest by population in 2000 and 2010.


Woodbridge hosts the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, the two busiest highways in the state, and also serves as the headquarters for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.According to historian Joshua Coffin, the early settlers included: Captain John Pike, the ancestor of General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was killed at the battle of Queenstown in 1813; Thomas Bloomfield, the ancestor of Joseph Bloomfield, some years governor of New Jersey, for whom the township of Bloomfield is named; John Bishop, senior and junior; Jonathan Haynes; Henry Jaques; George March; Stephen Kent; Abraham Toppan, junior; Elisha Ilsley; Hugh March; John Bloomfield; Samuel Moore; Nathaniel Webster; John Ilsley; and others." Woodbridge was the site of the first gristmill in New Jersey.


The mill was built by Jonathan Singletary Dunham, who was married to Mary Bloomfield, relative of Joseph Bloomfield.


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