![]() ![]() Hunterdon County was established on March 11, 1714, separating from Burlington County, at which time it included all of present-day Morris, Sussex, and Warren counties. It is located within the state's Skylands Region and is considered to be a part of Central Jersey. However, it is part of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and part of the larger New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area (CSA). Local businesses and the Delaware Valley Regional High School carry the name. Geographically, much of the county lies in the Delaware Valley. In 2011, Hunterdon County had the second-lowest level of child poverty of any county in the United States. The Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked the county as having the 19th-highest per capita income of all 3,113 counties in the United States (and the highest in New Jersey) as of 2009. In 2015, the county had a per capita personal income of $80,759, the third-highest in New Jersey and ranked 33rd of 3,113 counties in the United States. At the 2020 census, the county was the state's 18th-most populous county, with a population of 128,947, its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 598 (+0.5%) from the 2010 census count of 128,349, which in turn reflected an increase of 6,360 (5.2%) from the 121,989 counted in the 2000 census. Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. Interactive map of Hunterdon County, New Jersey ![]()
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