Millburn, NJ

Millburn Township is a beautiful residential community located in the southwest corner of Essex County. The Township is easy to reach via the midtown direct line of NJ Transit, the Garden State Parkway, NJ Turnpike, and is also convenient to Routes 24 and 78.

Millburn Township has an excellent school system. New Jersey Magazine has ranked the Millburn Township school system among the top 3 school districts in the state. In addition, Township schools also receive a national ranking as having one of the most academically challenging high schools in the country, offering many advance placement courses to students who excel in those classes.

The Township offers a wide variety of recreation programs, including a Community Pool and a Par 3 Golf Course, making the community appealing for families. In addition, Millburn Township has many fine restaurants, a movie theater, the Hilton Short Hills, rated by AAA as a Five Diamond Hotel, and a wide variety of cultural events, including the renowned Paper Mill Playhouse and the Cora Hartshorn Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary.

Millburn Township is unique in that it offers upscale, high-end, fifth avenue shopping along with quaint small town shopping of a traditional downtown. The Mall at Short Hills, located on the western side of the Township, is a beautiful regional shopping center in which many fine shops and stores are located. The downtown and local shopping areas offer a variety of unique specialty shops, service-based businesses, and professional offices.

The present population of the Millburn-Short Hills area is approximately 19,735. Millburn Township is a full-service community where most residents live in single family homes. Millburn is comprised of the historic Wyoming district, and South Mountain and Millburn Center areas. Short Hills contains the sections of Knollwood, Glenwood, Brookhaven,
Country Club, Merrywood, Deerfield-Crossroads, Mountaintop, White Oak Ridge, and Old Short Hills Estates.bsite

Official Millburn website.

• Millburn train station to New York City Penn Station - 35 minutes
• Millburn to Newark Airport - 21 minutes

• Millburn to Short Hills Mall - 7 minutes
• Millburn to Giant Stadium - 32 minutes

Millburn's Median Household Income

Millburn's Demographics

There were 7,015 households out of which 44.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.6% were married couples living together, 6.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.1% were non-families. 17.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.82 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the township the population was spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 3.2% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.2 males.
The median income for a household in the township was $130,848, and the median income for a family was $158,888. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $51,603 for females. The per capita income for the township was $76,796. About 1.2% of families and 1.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.4% of those under age 18 and 1.0% of those age 65 or over.
Millburn has traditionally had one of the largest Jewish communities in Essex County, along with neighboring Livingston and South Orange]Philip Roth's popular novel Goodbye, Columbus about a newly affluent Jewish family, was set in the Short Hills section of Millburn, and a key scene takes place at the Millburn High School track.
The township has also become very popular with young professionals moving out of Manhattan, thanks to direct train service to Penn Station.

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The Millburn Township Public Schools serve students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are five K-5 elementary schools — Deerfield Elementary School (522 students), Glenwood Elementary School (448), Hartshorn Elementary School (569), South Mountain Elementary School (353) and Wyoming Elementary School (328) — Millburn Middle School for sixth through eighth grade (1,070) and Millburn High School for grades 9-12 (1,283).

During the 2007-08 school year, Millburn High School was recognized with the Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education, the highest award an American school can receive. It was also named as one of the Top 100 High Schools in U.S. News and World Report's first ever ranking of U.S. high schools. It was also ranked as Number 148 in Newsweek Magazine's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in the August 5, 2005 issue. The ranking was solely based on the number of AP exams taken by the students at the school in the past year divided by the number of graduating seniors. 96.6% of the class of 2006 were planning to attend a four-year college, or other post-secondary education.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Millburn High School as the best high school in New Jersey in its 2008 rankings of the "Top Public High Schools" in New Jersey.

The influx of younger families into the community has led to significant growth in public school enrollment, with projected attendance forecast to double from 1990 to 2007.

Far Brook School is a private, nonsectarian coeducational day school located in the Short Hills section of Millburn, serving students in nursery through eighth grade, with a total enrollment of 197 students. The Pingry School's Lower School (K-6) campus is located in Short Hills. St. Rose of Lima School is a Catholic school with 260 students in PreK-3 to 8th grade, operating under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Newark.

NJ Department of Education Narrative on the Millburn High School
NJ Department of Education Statistics on the Millburn High School