Bayonne, NJ Facts, Population, Income, Demographics, Economy

Population (total): Population in 2017: 67,186 (100% urban, 0% rural). >Population change since 2000: +8.6%

Population (female): 34,843

Cost of Living: March 2019 cost of living index in Bayonne: 120.3 (high, U.S. average is 100)

Poverty (overall): Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2017: 14.6%

Poverty (breakdown): (12.1% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 15.7% for Black residents, 20.2% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 43.8% for American Indian residents, 5.7% for Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander residents, 16.8% for other race residents, 26.2% for two or more races residents)

Ancestries: Ancestries: Italian (10.2%), Polish (9.0%), Egyptian (9.0%), Irish (7.3%), American (2.3%), German (1.2%).

Zip Codes: 07002

Originally inhabited by Native Americans, the region presently known as Bayonne was claimed by the Netherlands after Henry Hudson explored the Hudson River which is named after him. According to Royden Page Whitcomb's 1904 book, First History of Bayonne, New Jersey, the name Bayonne is speculated to have originated with Bayonne, France, from which Huguenots settled for a year before the founding of New Amsterdam. However, there is no empirical evidence for this notion, which is considered apocryphal. Whitcomb gives more credence to the idea that Erastus Randall, E.C. Bramhall and B.F. Woolsey, who bought the land owned by Jasper and William Cadmus for real estate speculation, named it Bayonne for purposes of real estate speculation, because it was located on the shores of two bays, Newark and New York.