Landing is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP)State of New Jersey Census Designated Places - BVP20 - Data as of January 1, 2020 , United States Census Bureau. Accessed December 1, 2022. in Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.Locality Search , State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016. The community is located at the south end of Lake Hopatcong near Hopatcong State Park. The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 07850.

As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 4,296.

History

Landing was established as a resort community. From the 1880s through the 1940s, each summer it attracted thousands of people to the shores of Lake Hopatcong. After World War II, it began to decline and transform itself into a large suburban neighborhood. In 2017, measures were passed to give the neighborhood a facelift, the plans including several new, modern buildings, parks and signs. The improvements are expected to be complete in late 2022.

Landing was also an early center of the American explosives industry. In the 1880s the American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company operated a plant on the lakeshore at Landing, in the area now known as Shore Hills, making forcite, a form of gelatin dynamite. The inventor Hudson Maxim came to the lake through his work with the Forcite company and in 1901 bought a large tract on the western shore; around the same time DuPont, which by then owned powder works on the lake, built a laboratory for him at Landing.

Geography Landing is on the western edge of Morris County, in the northwestern part of Roxbury Township. It is bordered to the northwest, across Lake Hopatcong and its outlet, the Musconetcong River, by the borough of Hopatcong in Sussex County. Within Morris County, it is bordered to the east by the borough of Mount Arlington, to the south by unincorporated Ledgewood, and to the west by unincorporated Port Morris.

Interstate 80 forms the southern boundary of the Landing CDP, separating it from Ledgewood. Exit 28 (Landing Road) provides access to the community. I-80 leads east to Paterson and west to the Delaware Water Gap.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Landing CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 13.95%, are water. The outlet of Lake Hopatcong is along the northern boundary of the community; the Musconetcong River flows out of the lake, leading southwest to the Delaware River. Hopatcong State Park is within the CDP at the lake outlet.

Demographics

Landing was first listed as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.

2020 census As of the 2020 census, Landing had a population of 4,296. The median age was 42.1 years. 20.4% of residents were under the age of 18 and 15.6% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 94.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 93.0 males age 18 and over.

100.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 0.0% lived in rural areas.

There were 1,626 households in Landing, of which 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 56.0% were married-couple households, 13.7% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 24.3% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

There were 1,729 housing units, of which 6.0% were vacant. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.3% and the rental vacancy rate was 7.8%.

+Landing CDP, New Jersey – Racial and ethnic compositionRace / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)Pop 20202020White alone (NH) 3,006 69.97%Black or African American alone (NH) 149 3.47%Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)10.02%Asian alone (NH) 1814.21%Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)00.00%Other race alone (NH)21 0.49%Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) 152 3.54%Hispanic or Latino (any race)786 18.30%Total4,296 100.00% Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Landing include: Dylan Castanheira (born 1995), retired soccer player who played as a goalkeeper for Atlanta United 2Havsy, Jane, for the Daily Record. "Roxbury alum Dylan Castanheira now Atlanta United II goalkeeper" , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 6, 2019. Accessed June 12, 2020. "Columbia senior goalkeeper Dylan Castanheira of Landing signed with Atlanta United 2 on Friday.... After missing his freshman season at Roxbury High School due to a twice-broken leg, Castanheira was able to train with Stoke City in England for a week in the summer and was invited to return for a more formal tryout a couple of months later."Dylan Castanheira , Major League Soccer. Accessed March 23, 2025. "Birthplace: Landing, NJ USA" Karen Ann Quinlan (1954–1985), an important figure in the history of the right to die debate in the United StatesMcFadden, Robert D. "Karen Ann Quinlan, 31, Dies; Focus Of '76 Right To Die Case" , The New York Times, June 12, 1985. Accessed August 22, 2017. "Four weeks after her birth, the Quinlans took out adoption papers and took her home to their two-story gray-and-white colonial-style house at 510 Ryerson Road in the Landing section of Roxbury Township, just above Lake Hopatcong in Morris County."

See also Lake Hopatcong station Landing Masonry Bridge

References

External links

Landing community website