Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

New Jersey's 5th district

New Jersey's 5th district has 778,439 residents on 649 mi² of land. It is represented by Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ-5). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $151.1M in FY2026.

Residents
778,439
Land area
649 mi²
Counties
3
Representative
Josh Gottheimer
Map of New Jersey's 5th district within New Jersey

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. Bergen County82% of the district · 66% of the county
  2. Sussex County11% of the district · 58% of the county
  3. Passaic County7.1% of the district · 11% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$151.1M
Per resident
$194
Rank in New Jersey
12 of 12
Contract actions
11.7K
New awards: 10.7K

By fiscal year

  1. 114.5MFY2017
  2. 111.6MFY2018
  3. 140.5MFY2019
  4. 132.1MFY2020
  5. 117.8MFY2021
  6. 138.6MFY2022
  7. 144.3MFY2023
  8. 168MFY2024
  9. 213.7MFY2025
  10. 151.1MFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Department of Defense
  4. Department of Health and Human Services
  5. Department of Defense
  6. Department of Defense
  7. Department of Transportation

Top recipients

  1. 4,934 awards
  2. 5,215 awards
  3. 1 award
  4. 1 award
  5. 2 awards
  6. 58 awards
  7. 54 awards
  8. 4 awards
  9. 1 award
  10. 260 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.