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Ridgefield is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 26, 1892, from portions of Ridgefield Township, and named for the area's terrain.

Before European colonization, the area was home to the Hackensack tribe of the Lenape, and the land between Overpeck Creek and the Hudson River later became known as the 'English Neighborhood,' even though most of its settlers were of Dutch and Huguenot origin.

The 2020 United States census counted 11,501 residents in Ridgefield, an increase of 4.3% from the 11,032 counted in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 4,050 households in the borough.

Korean Americans accounted for 25.7% of Ridgefield's population in the 2010 census, one of the largest Korean-American communities in the region.

Ridgefield's Grantwood section was an artists' colony established in 1913 by Man Ray, Alfred Kreymborg, and Samuel Halpert of the 'Others' group of modernist artists, and street names there such as Sketch Place, Studio Road, and Art Lane still pay homage to it.

In 1915, Alfred Kreymborg launched the modernist poetry journal Others: A Magazine of the New Verse from Ridgefield, working with Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.

The original 118 miles of the New Jersey Turnpike were completed in 1952 with their northern terminus at an interchange connecting to Route 46 in Ridgefield.

The borough's Morsemere section was named in honor of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, who owned vast tracts of land in the borough in the mid-19th century, and Ridgefield's telephone exchange was called Morsemere 6 until the mid-1950s.

Low-lying parts of Ridgefield, including the Skeetkill Creek Marsh in the New Jersey Meadowlands, have been set aside as nature reserves connected to the Overpeck County Park system.