Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Wallington, NJ

Wallington is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, covering just 1.05 square miles along the Passaic River.

Wallington was created as a borough on January 2, 1895, from portions of Bergen Township and Saddle River Township, following a referendum held on December 31, 1894.

Wallington was the last of the 26 Bergen County boroughs formed during the 1894 'Boroughitis' wave, when communities across the county rushed to incorporate as boroughs.

The borough is said to be named for Walling Van Winkle, who lived from 1650 to 1725 and built a home in the area that became Wallington.

The 2020 United States census counted 11,868 people in Wallington, living in 4,825 households.

Wallington sits directly across the Passaic River from the city of Passaic, about 15 miles northwest of Midtown Manhattan.

In the 2000 census, 51.5% of Wallington residents reported Polish ancestry, one of the highest concentrations of Polish heritage in the area.

In the early 1900s, Wallington was advertised to immigrants as a 'Slovak colony,' reflecting the Slovak and other Eastern European families who settled there.

Farmland Dairies operated a plant on a 33-acre Main Avenue site in Wallington until it closed in 2014, and the site was later designated a redevelopment area.

Portions of Wallington were ceded to neighboring Garfield in 1898, only three years after the borough was formed.