Of the 798,698 people living in Essex County in 2020, 51.9 percent (414,404) were women and 48.1 percent (384,294) were men, according to U.S. Census Bureau data obtained by the Newark Reporter.
Of the 281,917 people living in Newark in 2020, 51.1 percent (144,088) were women and 48.9 percent (137,829) were men, according to U.S. Census Bureau data obtained by the Newark Reporter.