736,185 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.0% since 2020)
46 square miles of land · 15,937 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
7 active community water systems list Hudson County in the area they serve, reporting 1,228,208 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VEOLIA WATER NEW JERSEY HACKENSACK surface water · private · NJ0238001 | 792,713 served |
| JERSEY CITY MUA surface water · local government · NJ0906001 | 262,000 served |
| CITY OF BAYONNE buys surface water · local government · NJ0901001 | 63,000 served |
| HOBOKEN WATER UTILITY buys surface water · local government · NJ0905001 | 52,000 served |
| KEARNY WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · NJ0907001 | 41,664 served |
| HARRISON W DEPT buys surface water · local government · NJ0904001 | 14,425 served |
| EAST NEWARK W DEPT buys surface water · local government · NJ0902001 | 2,406 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 1,352 people were held in Hudson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 272 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 1,220.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
13 school districts have their office in Hudson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $910.4 million — $863.3 million to run schools, about $32,396 per student, plus $7.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $520.8 million local (mostly property tax), $476.8 million state, $74.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.3 million.
Spent $382.2 million — $336.4 million to run schools, about $26,184 per student, plus $8.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.5 million local (mostly property tax), $303.2 million state, $50.1 million federal.
Spent $239.7 million — $231.6 million to run schools, about $22,307 per student, plus $799,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $85 million local (mostly property tax), $143.6 million state, $18.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $34.1 million.
Spent $229.2 million — $212.4 million to run schools, about $26,484 per student, plus $687,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $25.4 million local (mostly property tax), $166.5 million state, $43.6 million federal.
Spent $190.1 million — $160.3 million to run schools, about $22,080 per student, plus $26 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $64 million local (mostly property tax), $99.9 million state, $16.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.4 million.
Spent $152.9 million — $147.6 million to run schools, about $27,135 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $60.2 million local (mostly property tax), $85.8 million state, $14.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.8 million.
Spent $102.5 million — $87.8 million to run schools, about $27,690 per student, plus $659,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $59.5 million local (mostly property tax), $38 million state, $5.3 million federal.
Spent $70.3 million — $63.3 million to run schools, about $25,958 per student, plus $114,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14 million local (mostly property tax), $43.8 million state, $12.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.4 million.
And 5 more.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hudson County about $188.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
202 bridges in Hudson County: 43 in good condition, 146 fair, and 13 poor (6.4%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| NJ495EB &RMPS B J over NJ 3 EB & US 1 RAMP · built 1951 | 152,276 vehicles a day |
| US 1&9 over Hcksck & Pssc Rvrs Rds · built 1932 | 88,138 vehicles a day |
| US1+9T over HACKENSACK RIVER · built 1954 | 87,045 vehicles a day |
| NJ 139 over Conrail (aban Eirie-Lac) · built 1927 | 78,626 vehicles a day |
| Baldwin Avenue over Conrail & Path · built 1917 | 38,705 vehicles a day |
| RT 501 (JFK BLVD) over NJ 139 · built 1926 | 26,769 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $467.9 million of work in Hudson County in fiscal 2025, about $646 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for New Jersey are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Hudson County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Hudson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: New York County, NY (6 mi) · Kings County, NY (9 mi) · Essex County (10 mi) · Richmond County, NY (12 mi) · Union County (13 mi) · Queens County, NY (13 mi).