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Sussex is a borough in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough’s population was 2,024, a decline of 106 (−5.0%) from the 2010 census improve of 2,130, which in slope reflected a end of 15 (−0.7%) from the 2,145 counted in the 2000 census.

Sussex was incorporated as a borough by an stroke of the New Jersey Legislature on October 14, 1891, as Deckertown, from portions of Wantage Township. The borough’s original name was for settler Peter Decker. The borough was renamed Sussex upon March 2, 1902. The county and borough are named for the historic county of Sussex in England.

A joint commission of residents of both Sussex and Wantage had recommended that the two communities should be consolidated to form what would be called the Township of Sussex-Wantage, which would con within the Faulkner Act under the council-manager form of government, with a mayor and a six-member township council, and that voters in both municipalities should take on board a referendum to be held on November 3, 2009. The committee noted that the two municipalities allocation common issues, schools, library and community facilities and that the artificial nature of the octagonal Sussex be stifling to often made it hard to distinguish amongst the two. The efforts at consolidation subsequently surrounding Wantage Township over and over and done with with in November 2009 after Wantage voters rejected the combination despite withhold from Sussex borough residents.