| City: | Plainfield, New Jersey |
| County: | Union County |
| Timezone: | Eastern (GMT -05:00) |
| Local Time: | 10:21:48 PM |
| Population: | No Population Data |
| Area Code: | 908 |
| Classification: | PO Box |
| Coordinates: | 40.6339, -74.4076 |
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ZIP code 07061 serves as a PO Box station in Plainfield, New Jersey. It doesn't cover a geographic territory of its own. Instead, it exists as a point location within ZIP code 07060, which handles residential and commercial delivery for the surrounding area. This arrangement is common in older urban areas where the postal service maintains separate ZIP codes for PO Box operations.
The Plainfield post office at this ZIP maintains 341 PO Boxes along with 122 business delivery points. All mail operations are centered on Watchung Avenue, where the postal facility is located. Residents and businesses throughout the Plainfield area use these boxes for mail pickup, even though their street addresses fall within the 07060 ZIP code.
Plainfield sits in Union County, part of the New York metropolitan area. Downtown Elizabeth is about 11 miles away, and Staten Island neighborhoods are within 12 miles. Because this ZIP handles only PO Boxes and facility-based mail (not street delivery to homes), it has no resident population in Census records. The people who rent boxes here live in the surrounding 07060 territory.
The only street address in this ZIP is the post office facility on Watchung Avenue.
ZIP Code 07061 supports both business and residential activity. According to the Business Census (2024), there are 15 business establishments, employing about 93 people with an annual payroll of $7,504,000.
| # Residential Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| # Business Mailboxes: | 0Source: USPS |
| Total Delivery Receptacles: | 2,237Source: USPS |
| Single Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| Multi Family Delivery Units: | 0Source: USPS |
| # of Businesses: | 15Source: CBP |
| 1st Quarter Payroll: | $2,929,000Source: CBP |
| Annual Payroll: | $7,504,000Source: CBP |
| # of Employees: | 93Source: CBP |
ZIP Code 07061 is located in Union County, New Jersey, within the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (CBSA 35620) and New Jersey's 12nd Congressional District. This Metro area has a population of 19,756,722 people, about 0.00% of whom live in ZIP Code 07061, and is subdivided into the Newark, NJ division. It covers 0 sq mi of land and a water area of 0 sq mi.
| CBSA Name: | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJSource: Census |
| CBSA Number: | 35620Source: Census |
| CBSA Type: | MetroSource: Census |
| CBSA Division: | Newark, NJ (CBSA Div 35084)Source: Census |
| CBSA Population: | 19,756,722Source: Census |
| MSA: | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PASource: Census |
| Land Area: | --Source: Census |
| Water Area: | --Source: Census |
| Congressional District: | 12Source: USPS |
| Congressional Land Area: | 412.23 sq miSource: Census |
| PMSA: | Newark, NJ PMSASource: Census |
| Intro Date: | < 2004-10Source: ZIP-Codes.com |
| Place FIPS Code: | 3459190Source: Census |
| Place Name: | Plainfield city; New JerseySource: Census |
We could not locate which school district 07061 belongs to, but we will update this once new district data is released. There are no public schools nor private schools with a mailing address in this ZIP Code. Listing Nearby schools instead. It also has 6 colleges, universities or post secondary education institutions nearby which would be a short commute to.
Our sources include trusted federal and licensed data from the United States Postal Service, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Center for Education Statistics, along with proprietary datasets created by ZIP-Codes.com. Data last updated on January 1, 2026.