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Skillman is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Montgomery Township in Somerset County, New Jersey.

The community is named for the Skillman family, whose ancestor Thomas Skillman bought some 500 acres of farmland on the Millstone River in 1729 for his sons.

The Skillman name took hold when the railroads arrived in the 1870s and the new train station was named for the family; a post office opened in the station and a small village with a hay press, feed store and hardware store grew up around it.

As of the 2020 United States census, the CDP's population was 237, down slightly from 242 at the 2010 census.

The 2010 census counted just 87 households in the CDP, with an average household size of 2.78 people.

Although the CDP itself is tiny, the Skillman postal address, ZIP Code 08558, serves approximately half of Montgomery Township's 32 square miles and roughly 23,000 residents.

All of Montgomery Township's public school buildings, including Montgomery High School, are located within the Skillman postal area.

Skillman was home to the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, a self-contained 250-acre complex opened around 1900 that had its own dairy, laundry and movie theater, on the site later known as the North Princeton Developmental Center, or Skillman Village.

In 2011, Montgomery Township sold what remained of the North Princeton Developmental Center to Somerset County so that the village could be demolished and the grounds converted to a county park.

The Skillman postal area is also home to offices of Kenvue, the former Johnson & Johnson consumer products division, and of Bloomberg L.P.