Flanders, New Jersey

Flanders is an Local [government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities|unincorporated community] and census-designated place in Mount [Olive Township, New Jersey|Mount Olive Township], in southwestern Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,832. Flanders is served by the U.S. Postal Service as ZIP Code 07836.

Geography

Flanders is in southeastern Mount Olive Township, bordered to the east by Ledgewood and Succasunna in Roxbury [Township, New Jersey|Roxbury Township] and to the south by Chester Township. U.S. Route 206 passes through the community to the west of its center, leading north to Netcong and south to Chester.
Flanders lies in the German Valley, between highlands that rise to the northwest and to the southeast. Drakes Brook, a southwest-flowing tributary of the South Branch of the Raritan River, passes through the center of town. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Flanders CDP has a total area of, of which, or 0.36%, are water.

Race / Ethnicity	Pop 2020	2020
White alone	7,049	71.69%
Black or African American alone	462	4.70%
Native American or Alaska Native alone	4	0.04%
Asian alone	587	5.97%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone	0	0.00%
Other race alone	39	0.40%
Mixed race or Multiracial	338	3.44%
Hispanic or Latino	1,353	13.76%
Total	9,832	100.00%

As of the 2020 United States census, the Flanders CDP's population was 9,832, a decrease of 2,736 from the 12,568 enumerated at the 2010 census in the Flanders ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which in turn reflected an increase of 351 from the 12,217 counted in the 2000 census.

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