House Cleaning Middlesex County, NJ

Where we work

Middlesex County is split by the Raritan River and bordered by the Arthur Kill and Raritan Bay; New Brunswick is the county seat. We serve its northern edge, the part closest to our Kenilworth base: Avenel and Colonia, two communities inside Woodbridge Township, and the borough of South Plainfield.

The homes

Woodbridge Township, which includes Avenel and Colonia, has a median year built of 1962, and about a third of its homes are rented. South Plainfield's median is 1964, and 78.5% of its homes are single-family detached, according to Census estimates for 2020–2024. That is mostly post-war housing, with more renters in the Woodbridge communities, where tenant turnover makes move-in and move-out cleanings worth planning ahead.

Daily life here

Colonia borders Clark and Rahway in Union County and has 179-acre Merrill Park along the South Branch of the Rahway River. South Plainfield has 127-acre Spring Lake Park and Interstate 287 exits 4 and 5. Avenel's North Jersey Coast Line station and the Garden State Parkway make this corner of the county an easy trip for our crew.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024; Wikipedia (county, park and rail-line articles).

• Avenel. An unincorporated community in Woodbridge Township established in 1901, with a North Jersey Coast Line station and the Avenel Performing Arts Center, opened in 2019.
• Colonia. An unincorporated community in Woodbridge Township bordering Clark and Rahway, home to 179-acre Merrill Park along the Rahway River's South Branch.
• South Plainfield. Incorporated in 1926 from part of Piscataway Township; I-287 exits 4 and 5 serve the borough, which contains 127-acre Spring Lake Park.

• Median year structure built for Middlesex County housing units is 1974 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035).
• 36.4% of Middlesex County's occupied housing units are renter-occupied (ACS 2020-2024, table B25003).
• 52.4% of Middlesex County's 317,979 housing units are single-family detached and 11.1% single-family attached (ACS 2020-2024, table B25024).
• 10.4% of Middlesex County housing units were built before 1940 and 20.4% between 1940 and 1959 (ACS 2020-2024, table B25034).
• New Brunswick is the county seat of Middlesex County, which was formed on March 7, 1683.
• Middlesex County is governed by a seven-member Board of County Commissioners elected at-large to staggered three-year terms.
• Middlesex County had 863,162 residents in the 2020 census on 309.22 square miles of land.
• Middlesex County is bisected by the Raritan River and bordered by Raritan Bay and the Arthur Kill.
• The Raritan River runs about 69.6 miles, becomes tidal at New Brunswick and empties into Raritan Bay.
• Colonia covers 4.03 square miles in northeastern Middlesex and borders Clark and Rahway in Union County.
• The Middlesex County park system maintains over 32 parks and recreation areas, with about 3,081 acres of parkland plus about 7,948 acres of nature preserves.
• Spring Lake Park, a 127-acre Middlesex County park, is in South Plainfield.
• Merrill Park is a 179-acre county park along the South Branch of the Rahway River in Colonia, with tennis courts, ball fields and playgrounds.
• Roosevelt Park, a 217-acre county park, is located in Edison, next to South Plainfield and Woodbridge.
• Woodbridge Township, which contains Avenel and Colonia, received a royal charter from King Charles II on June 1, 1669.
• Edison Township, formerly Raritan Township, was renamed on November 10, 1954, for Thomas Edison, who set up his Menlo Park laboratory there in 1876.
• Avenel was established in 1901 and named for the daughter of Captain Demarest, founder of what had been called Demarest on the Hill.
• Avenel station on NJ Transit's North Jersey Coast Line offers direct trains to New York Penn Station; weekend service was added in September 2019.
• Metropark station in Iselin, Woodbridge Township, opened in 1971 and serves NJ Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and Amtrak trains, with about 3,615 parking spaces.
• The Northeast Corridor Line stops at Metropark, Metuchen, Edison and New Brunswick in Middlesex County.
• Woodbridge Township contains the junction of the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway.
• The Garden State Parkway passes through Woodbridge Township, including Colonia and Iselin, and through Sayreville.
• Interstate 287 crosses the southern part of South Plainfield at exits 4 and 5; its southern end is at the New Jersey Turnpike in Edison.
• Rutgers University-New Brunswick, chartered on November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, has campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway.
• Middlesex College in Edison, founded in 1964, changed its name from Middlesex County College on January 1, 2021.
• Johnson & Johnson, founded in New Brunswick in 1886, keeps its world headquarters at Johnson and Johnson Plaza in New Brunswick.
• Tumi, PTC Therapeutics and Jem Records are listed among major employers in South Plainfield.
• South Plainfield's median year built is 1964, and 78.5% of its housing units are single-family detached (ACS 2020-2024).
• Woodbridge Township, which includes Avenel and Colonia, has a median year built of 1962 and is 34.0% renter-occupied (ACS 2020-2024).