From the Palisades cliffs to the Ramapo foothills, Bergen County is the densest, most ordinance-heavy fencing market in New Jersey — and the one we install in most. Vinyl, aluminum, wood and chain link, permits filed for you.
Bergen County is the most populous county in New Jersey and, for a fence company, the most fragmented. Seventy separate municipalities means seventy separate zoning offices, seventy fence ordinances and seventy sets of setback rules — and they genuinely differ. A six-foot rear-yard fence that is routine in Mahwah can need a variance three towns south. We have filed permits in Bergen boroughs for over fifteen years, and we verify the ordinance for your specific address before a number ever goes on paper.
The terrain swings just as hard. Along the Hudson — Fort Lee, Edgewater, Cliffside Park, Alpine — you are fencing on or near the Palisades: rock close to the surface, steep drop-offs, and lot lines that were drawn before anyone thought about a post hole. Out west toward Mahwah, Oakland and Franklin Lakes the ground turns into Ramapo foothill: glacial till, boulders and slope. In between sit the Pascack and Northern Valley suburbs, where the challenge is not the dirt but the neighbor's fence four feet away and a homeowners' association with an opinion about color.
Housing stock drives material choice here more than anywhere else in the state. Bergen's postwar boroughs are wall-to-wall quarter-acre lots where a vinyl privacy fence is the entire point of the backyard. Its estate towns — Alpine, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Tenafly — want cedar or ornamental aluminum that reads as landscape, not barrier. And the county's pool density means a large share of every season's work is code-driven: self-closing, self-latching gates and four-foot minimum enclosures that have to pass inspection the first time.
We install and repair across Bergen County out of our Wayne shop, typically fifteen to thirty-five minutes from any Bergen address. Same crew, never subcontracted, workmanship warranty in writing on every job — whether it is forty feet of chain link in Lodi or a full ornamental perimeter in Saddle River.
Whether you searched for a fence contractor in Bergen County, fence installers near me in Hackensack, or a Bergen County fence company with a warranty — this is the same crew, the same standard, in every town on this page.
Vinyl, aluminum, wood and chain link installed by our own crew anywhere in Bergen County. Free written estimate, permits filed, workmanship warranty.
See installation services →Leaning posts, sagging gates, broken panels and wind damage repaired across Bergen County. Insurance-friendly documentation for storm and vehicle claims.
See repair services →Backyard privacy, front-yard picket, pool enclosures and gates for Bergen County homeowners — designed around your lot, not a catalog default.
See residential fencing →Security perimeters, access gates and commercial-grade chain link for Bergen County businesses, municipal sites and multi-family properties.
See commercial fencing →The one fence New Jersey requires you to have. Code-compliant barriers with self-closing, self-latching gates — verified against the ordinance in your Bergen County town.
See pool fencing →Swing, sliding and cantilever gates with keypads, intercoms and safety sensors — sized to the driveway grades and setbacks Bergen County properties actually have.
See driveway gates →Ordered by what we actually install most in Bergen County — not by what is easiest to sell. Each links to the full catalog and to the installation service.
Most installed in Bergen The default privacy fence across Pascack Valley and Northern Valley subdivisions — six-foot tongue-and-groove panels that hold a straight line between neighbors on lots measured in feet, not acres.
Bergen has more in-ground pools than any county we serve, and ornamental aluminum is what passes pool inspection while keeping sight lines open on a landscaped property.
Cedar board-on-board is the estate-lot answer in Alpine, Saddle River and Upper Saddle River, where a fence has to disappear into a mature tree line.
Still the workhorse in the Meadowlands industrial corridor and on the tight rear lots of Fairview, Palisades Park and Little Ferry, where cost-per-foot decides the job.
Every county in New Jersey has its own ground, its own rules and its own failure modes. These are the four that decide how we build here.
In Fort Lee, Edgewater, Englewood Cliffs and Alpine, bedrock often sits within two feet of grade. We core through it rather than shorten the post — a fence set shallow on a cliff-side lot will move within a season.
Front-yard height caps, corner-lot sight triangles and finished-side-out requirements all vary borough to borough in Bergen. We pull the current ordinance for your address, not a county-wide assumption.
On the dense borough lots of Palisades Park, Fairview and Ridgefield, the difference between your property and your neighbor's can be under a foot. We work from the survey and set the line where the survey says, which prevents the removal order nobody wants.
Bergen inspectors check barrier height, picket spacing and gate hardware carefully. We build to BOCA pool code from the start — four-foot minimum, under four-inch spacing, self-closing and self-latching gates.
There is no single county-wide fence ordinance in New Jersey — each of Bergen County's 70 municipalities writes its own. Here is the pattern, and how we handle it.
The common cap across Bergen County municipalities. Corner lots often face additional sight-triangle limits.
Standard privacy height in most residential zones. Anything above this generally needs a variance.
BOCA national pool code — 4ft minimum height, max 4" picket spacing, self-closing self-latching gate.
One per municipality in Bergen County. We verify yours by address before quoting — never by county-wide assumption.
Almost every Bergen County municipality requires a zoning permit for a new fence, and most require a current survey or plot plan showing where the fence will sit relative to the property line. Boroughs along the Hudson and in the Northern Valley tend to be the strictest about setbacks and corner-lot visibility triangles; the Pascack Valley towns are generally more permissive on rear-yard height but firm on front-yard limits.
We handle the entire filing — application, plot plan, fee and inspection scheduling — as part of your written estimate. There is no separate permit-handling charge, and we do not start digging until the approval is in hand and utilities are marked.
For the statewide picture, read our guide to NJ fence permits and height rules town by town, or see what a project typically runs in our New Jersey fence cost guide.
Each town below has a dedicated page with local details. Do not see yours? We still serve it — call and ask.
Real photographs from completed projects — vinyl privacy, ornamental aluminum, custom cedar and commercial chain link.
Same crew, same warranty, same standard across every county we cover.
Passaic County is home. Our shop sits in Wayne, minutes from every town in the county — from Paterson's urban core to the lake communities up north. Fastest scheduling we offer anywhere in New Jersey.
See Passaic County →Essex County runs from Newark's urban grid up the First Watchung ridge into Montclair, Millburn and the Oranges. Historic-district rules, hillside lots and tight city parcels — we build for all three.
See Essex County →Morris County is wooded, rocky, historic and spread out — long fence runs on glacial soil, deer pressure on every wood line, and historic districts from Morristown to Mendham. We build for all of it.
See Morris County →Tell us about your project and we will call you back within business hours. Free written estimate, workmanship warranty, no surprise add-ons.
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Family-owned, licensed and insured, our own crew on every job, and a workmanship warranty in writing — in all 64 Bergen County towns we cover.
Monday – Saturday, 8am – 8pm · Based in Wayne, NJ · Closest Bergen County town is about 12 minutes from our shop