West Orange, New Jersey

West Orange is a suburban township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

West Orange is both an inner-ring suburb of Newark, the county seat of Essex County and New Jersey's largest city, and a commuter suburb of New York City; it is approximately 12 miles west of Manhattan. West Orange is well known for having been home to the inventor Thomas Edison, who also maintained a laboratory and workshop in town.

As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 48,843, an increase of 2,636 from the 2010 Census count of 46,207, which in turn reflected an increase of 1,264 from the 44,943 counted in the 2000 census.