Lodi, NJ

Lodi covered 2.27 square miles in 2020, when 26,206 residents produced a density of 11,534 people per square mile. Its 2020-24 Census profile also records that 39.5 percent of residents were foreign-born and that 55 percent of people age five and older spoke a language other than English at home. The borough was formed from Lodi Township on December 22, 1894. The Saddle River continues to shape local infrastructure; Bergen County reopened the replaced Passaic Avenue bridge over the river in August 2025, restoring a crossing that had served the community for more than 120 years. Felician University adds a distinctive institution to that small footprint. The Felician Sisters founded its predecessor in Lodi in 1923 as a normal school for teachers; the university now operates Lodi and Rutherford campuses and reported 1,959 undergraduates and 709 graduate students in fall 2025.

Borough recreation is spread through neighborhood-scale sites. Memorial Park has a track, soccer field, volleyball, lighted basketball and tennis courts, playgrounds, and an amphitheater; Kennedy Park holds multiple ball fields, while Pirate Cove provides an ADA-accessible playground with inclusive swings and play structures. At One Memorial Drive, the public library sits in the same civic area as Memorial Park. Its services include computer classes, ESL programs, job-search help, digital lending, and Bergen County cooperative-library access; recurring youth offerings include weekly gaming, a teen advisory board, and volunteer work. In 2026, the borough held its summer camp at Kennedy Park, giving another of those smaller parks a regular seasonal role.