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Florham Park

Florham Park, NJ

  • Passaic River Canoe Launch, Florham Park, New Jersey. Google Street View. August 2021
  • New home under construction. Lincoln Ave, Florham Park, New Jersey. Google street view. Nov 2020

What We Love About Florham Park

  • Great school system
  • Welcoming community events and small-town feel
  • Home to the New York Jets’ training facility and corporate offices
  • Summit Health—Florham Park Campus with Urgent Care
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University—Florham Park Campus
  • Lower property taxes than many nearby towns
  • 13 minutes from the dining, nightlife, culture, and arts of Morristown
  • 10 minutes from South Mountain Reservation

Florham Park is located in Morris County, New Jersey.

From NYC it takes barely 40 minutes to get here by car. Florham Park is part of the Skylands region of NJ, which is made up largely of farms, fairs, rivers, mountains, parks, wineries and outdoor activities. Even though you have some rural living, as with most of NJ, you are not far from shopping, groceries, dining and work.

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Quick Facts

Florham Park is located in Morris County, New Jersey – Skylands Region – an hour from NYC by car.

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Quick facts about Florham Park:

COMMUTE TIME (Hour:Minutes) ⓘ

These times are based on info from New Jersey Transit and Google Maps. Shortest times are given. Use our map above to calculate more accurate commute times to any address.
0:40+

Car ride to NYC.

n/a

Train service to NYC.

1:50+

Bus service to NYC.

SIZE ⓘ

People per square mile gives you an idea of how much breathing room a town has. NYC has around 27,000 while a well equipped walkable town might have around 5,000. Smaller towns with more single family homes and large yards usually have under 1,000. Click on more info below to see where we get our data. 
11,496

Population estimate, July 1, 2019

7.29

Square miles

1,605

People per square mile

HOUSING ⓘ

Median cost to rent or own is basically the average cost of renting or owning per month in any given town. It’s not exact. Median values include the most expensive dwellings and the cheapest dwellings all averaged together, but with some weight added to higher concentrations in the data set. Just gives you some basic basis of comparison between towns. Click on more info below to see where we get our data.

$2,441

Median gross rent, 2014-2018

$3,208

Median selected monthly owner costs – with a mortgage, 2014-2018

$645,800

Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2014-2018

PROPERTY TAX ⓘ

Approximate tax on $100K of home value. Ex: If you pay $500K for a house, multiply the number in the left column by 5 to get an idea of what you will have to pay each year in property taxes.

$1,567

Property taxes per $100,000 in home value.

EDUCATION ⓘ

Gives you the ability to quickly see how much of a town has graduated from high school or higher ed. Click on more info below to see where we get our data.
98.20%

High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018

67.70%

Bachelor’s degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018

INCOME ⓘ

Gives you an idea of how much people make in this town compared to other towns you look at. Click on more info below to see where we get our data.

$128,071

Median household income (in 2018 dollars), 2014-2018

AGE DISTRIBUTION ⓘ

Gives you an idea of how old your neighbors might be. Click on more info below to see where we get our data.
16.20%

Persons under 18 years

19.40%

Persons 65 years and over

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The Full Story of Florham Park, NJ

What is it like living in Florham Park, NJ?

In southeastern Morris County approximately 30 miles west of Manhattan, upper-middle-class Florham Park is bordered on the south by Madison and Chatham boroughs, to the north by Hanover and East Hanover townships, and to the west by Morris Township (the area surrounding and including Morristown). With a small-town feel and a great school system, Florham Park is home to 12,605 residents within its 7.6 miles. While there is no traditional walkable Main Street, Florham Park centers around a cluster of four attractive, renovated strip malls along Columbia Turnpike, with independent shops and restaurants as well as Kings Food Market, Trader Joe’s, Pastosa Ravioli, Starbucks, Dunkin, Panera Bread, Chopt, McDonald’s, CVS, and Walgreens. Florham Park’s property taxes have remained lower than many other area towns (although taxes have risen in recent years) due to the large number of office parks and other ratables in town.

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It’s not unusual to spot NFL football players in Florham Park, because the New York Jets’ state-of-the-art training facility and corporate offices are part of The Green at Florham Park—the mixed-use corporate campus that is also home to the chic 161-room Archer Hotel and Summit Health’s extensive 100,000-square-foot medical facilities complex—not far from The Florham Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University. The Park Savoy and Park Avenue Club are beautiful venues for special occasions such as weddings. Imagine That! is a fun and fantastic old-fashioned kids’ museum. Life Time Fitness has a luxurious branch in Florham Park with indoor and outdoor pools and a spa.

Florham Park community events include Summer Gazebo Concerts, the 4th of July Parade and Fireworks Display, Tree Lighting Event, National Night Out, and Outdoor Movie Nights.

 

Schools

Florham Park Public Schools has three schools that serve 989 pre-K through 8h grade students: Briarwood School has 370 students in pre-K through 2nd grade, Brooklake Elementary School has 291 students in 3rd-5th grades, and Ridgedale Middle School has 328 students in 6th-8th grades. Hanover Park High School, part of Hanover Park Regional High School District, serves 816 Florham Park Borough and East Hanover Township 9th-12th graders. Holy Family School (Catholic) serves Pre-K and kindergarten students.

 

Parks and Recreation

Despite its name, Florham Park does not have much parkland within its borders, but it is rich in recreation areas and organized recreational opportunities. There’s Emmet Park Field, Elm Street Dog Park, and Volunteers Memorial Park—with 19 acres of fields for a variety of sports, passive recreation, and dog walking, including the borough’s first turf field, playground equipment, and a concession building. Seven-acre Spring Garden Lake is a great spot for kayaking and fishing. 

The Florham Park Recreation Department offers youth baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, football, cheerleading, basketball, tennis, wrestling, and skiing programs, and summer day camp. Adults can participate in yoga and men’s softball. The expansive Florham Park Municipal Pool and Florham Park Gazebo are  in this same municipal complex.

Florham Park Roller Rink is a throwback to the ‘70s, with high-energy music and public skating hours—plus lessons.

Golfers can hit the fairways at the private Brooklake Country Club and Pinch Brook Golf Course, part of the Morris County Park Commission. 

A 10-minute drive down Columbia Turnpike takes you to Essex County’s South Mountain Reservation, a 2,047-acre County park that has expanded over the years to include a zoo, an ice-skating arena, minigolf and regular golf, a reservoir with a walking path around it and paddle boats for rent, a dog park, and natural areas with waterfalls, 20 miles of trails for walking and hiking, and 27 miles of carriage roads. Because it sits on a ridge 500 feet above sea level, the reservation offers spectacular views of the NYC skyline.  

 

Dining and Nightlife

China Chalet is known throughout the region for excellent authentic Sichuan cuisine. The Florham Park Diner has been a family-run 1950s-style diner since 1991. Nonna’s Italian Restaurant in Florham Park Plaza is known for excellent pizza (the Margherita is a fan favorite) and other Italian cuisine. Another nice Italian choice is Puleo’s Brick Oven, in the same plaza.  

Lucco Cucina & Bar, where Italian classics are given a contemporary touch, has a good bar scene, as does The Thirsty Turtle, a great stop for international gastropub fare as well as drinks. For something more active and retro, Florham Park Roller Rink has evening skating hours.

Just 13 minutes west of Florham Park, Morristown has endless possibilities for dining—American, BBQ, Italian, French, Greek, Polish, Mediterranean, Portuguese, Spanish, Mexican, Honduran, Ecuadorian, Colombian, Indian, Chinese, Pan-Asian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Thai, and Soul food—and many places have live music and stay open late, giving Morristown a lively nightlife..

 

Arts and Culture

Florham Park is home to The New Jersey Ballet Company and School and the community theater group Florham Park Players. 

Just 9 minutes away in Madison is New Jersey’s only professional theater company dedicated solely to Shakespeare’s canon and other classic masterworks, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, on the grounds of Drew University, which offers a spectacular annual Main Stage season at the intimate, state–of–the–art F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. A 13-minute drive to Morristown will take you to Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC), offering everything from classical music to modern dance, theater to popular music, and bringing world-class performers to the area. Each summer, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey stages a performance at The Greek Theatre, an open-air amphitheater on the grounds of St. Elizabeth University. The second-largest museum in New Jersey, Morris Museum in Morristown is a Smithsonian Affiliate.  

 

Housing Stock

Florham Park has a mix of 19th-century Colonials, 1940s Cape Cods, 1950s split levels, and new construction. Avalon at Florham Park has newly renovated one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments for rent. Bordering Chatham Borough, the large Sun Valley condominium complex sprawls along North Passaic Avenue. Belantrae Greens is a gated condominium townhouse community bordering the Pinch Brook Golf Course. Del Webb is an exclusive condominium development for active adults off Park Avenue near the office parks.

 

The Commute

Florham Park does not have its own train station, but you can hop on a NJ Transit train at neighboring Convent Station (9 minutes away; trip to NY Penn Station as little as 54 minutes; one-way $12.25, monthly pass $353), Madison Station (8 minutes away; trip to NY Penn Station as little as 52 minutes; one-way $11.75, monthly pass $336), and Chatham Station (10 minutes away; trip to NY Penn Station as little as 48 minutes; one-way $10.75, monthly pass $310). Route 24 runs through Florham Park, and Columbia Turnpike leads to Morristown Municipal Airport. Average driving time to Manhattan ranges from an hour to an hour and 15 minutes, depending on traffic; 21 minutes to Newark Airport.

Neighborhoods

Florham Park neighborhoods include Borough Center and Afton/Rosedale Village. High-end neighborhoods are Summit Woods and Country Club Lane near Brooklake Country Club. 

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