Gillette, New Jersey

Gillette is in southern Morris County, in the eastern third of Long Hill Township. It is bordered to the west by Stirling, also within Long Hill Township; to the north by Harding Township; and to the east by Chatham Township. The community's southern border is the Passaic River, across which is Union County to the southeast and Somerset County to the southwest.

The unincorporated community of Gillette is in the southern part of the Gillette CDP; Meyersville is in the northern part. The two settled areas are separated by Long Hill, summit elevation 450 feet (137 m), which rises about 200 feet (61 m) above the neighboring valleys. Morristown, the county seat, is 10 miles (16 km) to the north, while downtown Newark is 17 miles (27 km) to the east. Interstate 78 passes less than 2 miles (3 km) to the south of Gillette, with access from Exit 40, Hillcrest Road.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Gillette CDP has a total area of 4.465 square miles (11.564 km²), of which 4.323 square miles (11.197 km²) are land and 0.142 square miles (0.368 km²), or 3.18%, are water.^[1] The entire CDP is within the watershed of the Passaic River leading to Newark Bay.

Gillette was first listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.^[8]

As of the 2020 census, Gillette had a population of 2,956.^[9][10] The median age was 45.0 years. 20.9% of residents were under the age of 18 and 19.2% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 89.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 88.3 males age 18 and over.^[9]

96.5% of residents lived in urban areas, while 3.5% lived in rural areas.^[11]

There were 1,100 households in Gillette, of which 31.5% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 65.4% were married-couple households, 10.5% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 20.4% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.^[9]

There were 1,157 housing units, of which 4.9% were vacant. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.5% and the rental vacancy rate was 2.4%.^[9]

Gillette's Riverside Park was renamed Matthew G. Kantor Memorial Park in 2013, to honor a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan in 2012.^[13]

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  Passaic River
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  Residential street
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  Peaches at Hillview Farms

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Gillette include:

• Jessie Baylin (born 1984), singer-songwriter^[14]
• Lorinda Cherry (1944-2022), computer scientist and programmer^{[citation needed]}