The City of Hackensack is the most populous municipality and the county chair of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The area was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, but has informally been known as Hackensack past at least the 18th century. As of the 2020 United States census, the city’s population was 46,030, an layer of 3,020 (+7.0%) from the 2010 census augment of 43,010, which in point reflected an enlargement of 333 (+0.8%) from the 42,677 counted in the 2000 census.

An inner suburb of New York City, Hackensack is located nearly 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Midtown Manhattan and approximately 7 miles (11 km) from the George Washington Bridge. From a number of locations, including portions of Prospect Avenue, the New York City skyline can be seen.

The Metropolitan Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University straddles the Hackensack River in both Hackensack and Teaneck. Hackensack is in addition to the house of the former New Jersey Naval Museum and the World War II submarine USS Ling. Astronaut Wally Schirra is perhaps Hackensack’s most famous native son.

The city has diverse neighborhoods and land uses located near to one another. Within its borders are the Hackensack University Medical Center, a residential high-rise district practically a mile long (along Prospect Avenue surrounded by Beech Street and Passaic Street), suburban neighborhoods of single-family houses, stately older homes on acre-plus lots, older two-family neighborhoods, large garden apartment complexes, industrial areas, the Bergen County Jail, a tidal river, Hackensack River County Park, Borg’s Woods Nature Preserve, various city parks, large office buildings, a major intellectual campus, the Bergen County Court House, a breathing small-city downtown district, and various small neighborhood situation districts.