Sayreville was built on clay. Brickmaking ran here from the early 1800s until 1970, and the Sayre & Fisher Brick Company grew into one of the largest brick makers in the world, turning out 54 million bricks in 1878 and 178 million in 1913. The borough’s sections still carry the names of that era: Melrose, Morgan, Parlin, Ernston, Laurel Park, Sayre Woods and MacArthur Manor among them. DuPont began making gunpowder here in 1898, and the clay pits even produced amber fossils that a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History studied.
Today it is a river-crossing town. The Garden State Parkway enters on the Driscoll Bridge, U.S. Route 9 on the Edison Bridge and Route 35 on the Victory Bridge toward Perth Amboy, with County Route 535 (Washington Road) running through the borough. Sayreville counted 45,345 residents in the 2020 census and spans about 18.7 square miles, with water making up a good share of that. It borders Old Bridge, East Brunswick, Edison, South Amboy and South River, and faces Woodbridge and Perth Amboy across the Raritan.
One quirk matters for search. Parlin has its own ZIP code and post office, and the Morgan and Melrose sections use the South Amboy ZIP. A customer in those sections may write their address with another town’s name entirely, which means a business that mentions only Sayreville can miss searches from its own borough. Bailey Park and Kennedy Park, Sayreville War Memorial High School and the Starland Ballroom give a page plenty of real places to anchor to. The Raritan River Railroad ran passenger service to Parlin Station from 1888 to 1938, Sayreville Public Schools run nine schools, and St. Stanislaus Kostka School has been open since 1915. Morgan Cemetery overlooks Raritan Bay, a reminder that the borough has a shoreline as well as a river.
As of October 2026 the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs lists about 50 active home improvement and electrical contractor licenses with a Sayreville mailing address. That is a small pool, and because some sections use other towns’ ZIP codes, a mailing-address count can run low. Many Sayreville businesses also work in Old Bridge, Edison and across the river.
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