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Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Bergen
Incorporated	March 11, 1922
Named for	William Franklin
Government
• Type	Borough
• Body	Borough Council
Area
• Total	9.88 sq mi (25.60 km2)
• Land	9.41 sq mi (24.38 km2)
• Water	0.47 sq mi (1.21 km2)  4.75%
Area rank	212th of 565 in state 3rd of 70 in county
Elevation	522 ft (159 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	11,079
• Estimate  (2023)	11,021
• Rank	225th of 565 in state 34th of 70 in county
• Density	1,176.9/sq mi (454.4/km2)
• Density rank	364th of 565 in state 65th of 70 in county
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT))
ZIP Code	07417
Area code(s)	201
FIPS code	3400524990
GNIS feature ID	0885225

Franklin Lakes is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 11,079, an increase of 489 (+4.6%) from the 2010 census count of 10,590, which in turn reflected an increase of 168 (+1.6%) from the 10,422 counted in the 2000 census. Becton Dickinson, a Fortune 500 company, is headquartered in Franklin Lakes.

Franklin Lakes was formed by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Franklin Township, based on the results of a referendum held on April 11, 1922. The borough was named for William Franklin, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, a steadfast Loyalist who served as the last colonial governor of New Jersey.

The borough is one of the state's highest-income communities. Based on data from the American Community Survey for 2014–2018, Franklin Lakes residents had a median household income of $159,883, more than double the statewide median. In 2010, Forbes ranked Franklin Lakes at 146th in its listing of "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes," with a median home price of $1,306,546.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 9.88 square miles (25.60 km²), including 9.41 square miles (24.38 km²) of land and 0.47 square miles (1.21 km²) of water (4.75%).

Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or wholly within the borough include Bakers Pond, Blauvelt Lakes, Campgaw, Crystal Lakes, Ferdinands Mills, Hopper Lake, Pulis Mills and Shadow Lake.

The borough borders the municipalities of Mahwah, Oakland and Wyckoff in Bergen County; and both North Haledon and Wayne in Passaic County.

Demographics

2010 census

The 2010 United States census counted 10,590 people, 3,527 households, and 3,012 families in the borough. The population density was 1,129.1 per square mile (435.9/km²). There were 3,692 housing units at an average density of 393.6 per square mile (152.0/km²). The racial makeup was 88.92% (9,417) White, 1.41% (149) Black or African American, 0.04% (4) Native American, 7.34% (777) Asian, 0.00% (0) Pacific Islander, 0.83% (88) from other races, and 1.46% (155) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.96% (525) of the population.

Of the 3,527 households, 40.2% had children under the age of 18; 76.4% were married couples living together; 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present and 14.6% were non-families. Of all households, 12.6% were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.00 and the average family size was 3.29.

27.4% of the population were under the age of 18, 6.0% from 18 to 24, 16.7% from 25 to 44, 33.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44.9 years. For every 100 females, the population had 97.0 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older there were 93.8 males.

The Census Bureau's 2006–2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $151,224 (with a margin of error of +/− $16,426) and the median family income was $155,156 (+/− $33,998). Males had a median income of $125,586 (+/− $20,759) versus $63,170 (+/− $13,069) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $74,219 (+/− $9,917). About 0.7% of families and 1.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.7% of those under age 18 and 1.8% of those age 65 or over.

Same-sex couples headed 28 households in 2010, double the 14 counted in 2000.

Economy

Franklin Lakes hosts the corporate headquarters of Becton Dickinson, the medical technology firm founded in 1897. Medco Health Solutions, a leading pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), was based here until it was acquired by Express Scripts, another PBM, in 2012.

Popular culture

Franklin Lakes has been the setting of several reality television shows, including: Bravo network's series The Real Housewives of New Jersey, MTV's My Super Sweet 16, and VH1's My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding. Franklin Lakes was also used for filming the fictional upstate New York town of Dargerville in the Law & Order episode "Knock-Off".

Education

Students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade attend the Franklin Lakes Public Schools. As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprised of four schools, had an enrollment of 1,121 students and 138.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 8.1:1. Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Colonial Road School with 245 students in grades K–5, High Mountain Road School with 218 students in grades Pre-K–5, Woodside Avenue School with 254 students in grades K–5 and Franklin Avenue Middle School with 418 students in grades 6–8.

Public high school students from Franklin Lakes in ninth through twelfth grades attend the schools of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, which also serves students from Oakland and Wyckoff. Before enrolling, students have the option to choose to attend either of the district's high schools. Schools in the high school district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) available to students from Franklin Lakes are Indian Hills High School, located in Oakland (1,062 students) and Ramapo High School, located in Franklin Lakes (1,222 students). The district's nine-member board of education oversees the operation of the district; seats on the board are allocated based on population, with two of the nine seats allocated to Franklin Lakes.

Prior to the formation of the regional high school district, students from Franklin Lakes and Wyckoff had attended Ramsey High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship, until the Ramsey Public School District informed officials from the two communities that the Ramsey school would no longer have space to accommodate out-of-district students after the 1956–1957 school year. Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff (FLOW district) approved the creation of a regional high school in 1954 by a vote of 1,060 to 51, with Ramapo High School (in Franklin Lakes) opening in 1957 and Indian Hills High School in 1960.

Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are eligible to attend the secondary education programs offered by the Bergen County Technical Schools, which include the Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, and the Bergen Tech campus in Teterboro or Paramus. The district offers programs on a shared-time or full-time basis, with admission based on a selective application process and tuition covered by the student's home school district.

Academy of the Most Blessed Sacrament is a K–8 elementary school that operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark. In 2016, the school was one of ten schools in New Jersey, and one of four non-public school in the state, recognized as a National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education.

Transportation

Interstate 287 northbound in Franklin Lakes

Roads and highways

As of May 2010^[update], the borough had a total of 92.97 miles (149.62 km) of roadways, of which 71.64 miles (115.29 km) were maintained by the municipality, 16.75 miles (26.96 km) by Bergen County, and 4.58 miles (7.37 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.

Route 208 runs for 2.2 miles (3.5 km) across the borough's midsection, from Wyckoff to its western terminus at its intersection with Interstate 287 in Oakland. Interstate 287 enters on the borough's western border with Oakland and heads north towards Mahwah, with the highway's exit 59 in the borough. County Route 502 (Breakneck Road / Franklin Lakes Road) enters from Wayne Township in Passaic County at the borough's southwest corner, runs along the border with Oakland and re-enters Franklin Lakes, heading north towards Wyckoff.

Public transportation

NJ Transit bus route 752 serves Franklin Lakes, providing local service.

The former Campgaw Station site for the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway as seen in November 2011. There is nothing left of the station platform or depot.

From the late 1800s until 1966, Franklin Lakes had passenger train service at the Crystal Lakes and Campgaw stations on the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Franklin Lakes include:

Historic sites

Franklin Lakes is home to the following locations on the National Register of Historic Places:

• Ackerman–Boyd House – 1095 Franklin Lake Road (added 1983)
• Blauvelt House – 205 Woodside Avenue (added 1985)
• De Gray House – 650 Ewing Avenue (added 1983)
• Packer House – 600 Ewing Avenue (added 1983)
• Albert Pulis House – 322 Pulis Avenue (added 1983)
• Reaction Motors Rocket Test Facility – 936 Dogwood Trail (added 1979)
• Storms House – 1069 Franklin Lake Road (added 1984)
• Van Blarcom House – 834 Franklin Lake Road (added 1984)
• Van Houten House – 778 Vee Drive (added 1983)
• Van Houten–Ackerman House – 1150 Franklin Lake Road (added 1983)
• Van Koert–Winters House – 615 Franklin Avenue (added 1984)
• Van Winkle House – 798 Franklin Lake Road (added 1984)
• Aaron Winters House – 358 Woodside Avenue (added 1984)
• Winters–Courter House – 831 Circle Avenue (added 1983)

See also

In Spanish: Franklin Lakes para niños