New Jersey, Hudson County
Where Bayonne's records are kept. Bayonne has its own city government, clerk's office and police department; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Bayonne's own offices, along with State of New Jersey offices; the Hudson County offices are on our Hudson County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
Federal
U.S. Census Bureau fact table for Bayonne city, New Jersey: 74,744 people estimated for July 2025 and 71,686 counted in 2020, plus figures on households, home values, income, schooling and employers.
Open official site U.S. Census Bureau QuickFactsCity records
The Department of State's New Jersey State Archives in Trenton holds colonial and state records from 1664 on, including vital records, land documents, probate files and military papers; visits are free by appointment.
Open official site New Jersey State ArchivesCounty court
Sitting in Camden, Newark and Trenton, the New Jersey bankruptcy court runs mediation and loss mitigation programs, lists complex Chapter 11 and claim agent cases, and links PACER for case files.
Open official site United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New JerseyCounty court
New Jersey Judiciary hub for the public: search public case databases, request court records, find a municipal court case to pay a traffic or parking ticket, and watch livestreamed hearings.
Open official site New Jersey Courts Public ResourcesVital records
Holds births since 1925 and marriages and deaths since 1951; none are public records. Order through VitalChek or same day at 140 E. Front Street, Trenton; earlier years are at the State Archives.
Open official site New Jersey Department of Health Vital RecordsPolice & jail
The State Police unit behind every New Jersey Amber Alert also handles Safe Haven infant and Hague Treaty cases and collects data on missing and unidentified persons, with phone lines open around the clock.
Open official site New Jersey State Police Missing Persons UnitPolice & jail
Founded in 1978, with members assigned to the U.S. Marshals NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force, the unit posts New Jersey's most wanted, considered armed and dangerous, and a confidential 24 hour tip line.
Open official site New Jersey State Police Fugitive UnitPolice & jail
Megan's Law registry from the New Jersey State Police, listing high risk Tier 3 offenders and, with some exceptions, moderate risk Tier 2 offenders; low risk Tier 1 offenders are left off by law.
Open official site New Jersey Sex Offender RegistryPolice & jail
New Jersey residents get their own state criminal history by live scan fingerprinting at an IdentoGO site for $45.73; a clean result comes as a downloadable State Police letter within 24 to 72 hours.
Open official site New Jersey State Police Criminal History Record InformationCity records
Bayonne city government at 630 Avenue C, with legal ads and official notices, planning and zoning board exhibits, forms, budgets and audits, a GIS map, tax inquiry and city meetings.
Open official site City of BayonneCity records
City Clerk office for Bayonne, 630 Avenue C, phone (201) 858-6029, handling bingo and raffle licenses, voter registration and elections, marriage and civil union licenses and private and commercial licenses.
Open official site Bayonne City ClerkPolice & jail
630 Avenue C, 2nd Fl Bayonne NJ 07002 201-858-6969
Open official site Bayonne Police DepartmentEverything else, organized
13 more Bayonne sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Bayonne, a place of 71,686 people, is in Hudson County, whose county seat is Jersey City. Court and property records sit with Hudson County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of New Jersey. Bayonne's own offices are in the cards above, and our Hudson County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 53 investigations with a Bayonne address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $810,533 in back wages agreed for 628 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayonne Dry Dock and Repair/Coastwide | 1 | $360,000 | 224 |
| Bayonne Restaurant LLC | 1 | $173,889 | 105 |
| Fidelity Builders, Inc. | 9 | $55,104 | 17 |
| Bayonne Board of Education | 1 | $37,275 | 6 |
| North Bergen Dental Group, PA | 1 | $29,059 | 26 |
| D & M Food Corp. | 1 | $28,740 | 7 |
| Way 2 Go Staffing, LLC | 1 | $20,950 | 36 |
| TLC Enterprises Inc. | 1 | $18,250 | 64 |
| Central Paint & Building Supply Corp | 1 | $15,202 | 1 |
| A C Hardware 11 Inc. | 1 | $6,438 | 2 |
| Seahorse Express Inc. | 1 | $4,005 | 2 |
| Daninka Fuel Inc | 1 | $3,795 | 2 |
| Windmill Alliance, Inc. | 1 | $3,422 | 41 |
| Bayko, Inc. | 1 | $3,255 | 11 |
| Om Ganesh Shakti 15 LLC. | 1 | $3,174 | 22 |
| Tracey Evans, Ltd | 1 | $2,032 | 1 |
| Tracy Evans Limited | 2 | $1,673 | 1 |
| Primi Corp | 1 | $1,317 | 1 |
| Bayonne Jewish Community Center | 1 | $1,039 | 5 |
| The Guiding Light, Inc. | 1 | $232 | 1 |
| John Grazziano, CPA | 1 | $165 | 1 |
| V & J Fashions | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Gordon Terminal Service Co of NJ, Inc | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| United States Filter Corporation | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Harrington's Service Station, Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
The 25 employers with the most back wages agreed, of 41 whose address on the record is in Bayonne; 10 employers have a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record here. The 16 more with smaller records are on the New Jersey wage theft records page, whose search answers for every employer in the state.
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Voter registration in New Jersey is run by the New Jersey Division of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Bayonne.
Deeds for property in Bayonne are recorded by the Hudson County office that records deeds, and the city or town assessor keeps the tax values. Our Hudson County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in New Jersey come from the state vital records office, New Jersey Office of Vital Statistics and Registry. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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