ZIP 07042: $18.0 million across 52,122 FEC lines

A New Jersey township ZIP with 52,122 lines

$17,976,129 divided by 52,122 is about $345 per itemized line. That is a high-volume, mid-low-mean pattern: many Schedule A rows, fewer dollars on the typical row than a Westchester high-mean ZIP. Essex County geography does not change the arithmetic. The packet has no unique-donor count.

Fifty-two thousand one hundred twenty-two contributions is a long list. Repeat givers, household pairs, and any committee that files 07042 all add rows. Do not treat 52,122 as a census of Montclair. Quote it as a contribution-line total.

LobbyVault does not interpret $17,976,129 as a ranking of inner-ring suburb civic mood. The source is FEC.gov receipts tagged 07042.

Any extract that drops the leading zero will miss 07042 entirely. $17,976,129 across 52,122 contributions is tagged with five digits. A long list at a $345 mean is many small itemized gifts, not a unique-donor census. This packet has no unique-donor count. Recheck the ZIP 07042 FEC page after quarterly filings. 07043 is Upper Montclair, a different roll-up. FEC.gov controls.

Keep the leading zero; it is still the ZIP

07042 is a five-digit code. Spreadsheets that drop the leading zero and store 7042 will fail to match FEC itemizations. $17,976,129 is tagged 07042 as filed. It is not a resident-only book. A committee that lists a Bloomfield Avenue suite still posts that ZIP.

Open the ZIP 07042 FEC page for named receipts. This guide will not guess which of the 52,122 rows are households.

What stays off the $17,976,129 roll-up

Unitemized federal gifts never enter. New Jersey state-office campaigns never enter. Independent expenditures paid from another ZIP never enter. Cite $17,976,129 only as itemized federal receipts tagged 07042.

Because the line list is long, small amendments may not change the headline much. A restated joint-fundraising block still can. Recheck the live hub after large filings. This prose is a snapshot of FEC.gov aggregates indexed on LobbyVault.

Montclair’s 07042 key keeps the leading zero for a reason: FEC itemizations store five digits. $17,976,129 across 52,122 contributions is tagged 07042, not 7042. A long list at a $345 mean is consistent with many small itemized gifts. It is not a unique-donor census. This packet has no unique-donor count.

Essex County local campaigns never enter this federal roll-up. Recheck the ZIP 07042 FEC page after quarterly filings. Upper Montclair’s 07043 is a different key. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory. Named receipts show which committees appear. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees.

07042 beside 07043 and Glen Ridge

Upper Montclair’s 07043 is a different mail key. Adding it to 07042 and calling the sum a township FEC total is a recode you must document. This page reports $17,976,129 for 07042 only.

The all-ZIP directory is the inventory for that comparison. Compare 52,122 against those peers rather than against a Key Biscayne ZIP with 24,000 lines. Filing shape is local to how addresses were entered.

How to use the hub

The ZIP 07042 FEC page holds $17,976,129 and 52,122 as currently indexed. The all-ZIP directory places the code among others. The donor directory lists names on itemized receipts. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.

Filtering the donor directory to 07042 should reconcile to the ZIP hub, not to a homemade $345 average. When a name search and 52,122 disagree, the ZIP roll-up is the geographic total.

Montclair volume and the leading-zero trap

07042 posts $17,976,129 across 52,122 contributions, about $345 per line. New Jersey ZIPs keep the leading zero. A spreadsheet that stores 7042 will not match FEC itemizations tagged 07042. Quote the five-digit code as filed. This packet has no unique-donor count.

Upper Montclair’s 07043 is a different key. Adding it to 07042 manufactures a township figure. If you need that figure, list every ZIP. Keep 52,122 as the 07042 line count. The all-ZIP directory is the inventory.

New Jersey state filings sit outside $17,976,129. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside. A long list can hide a few large restated transfers. Recheck the ZIP 07042 FEC page after quarterly filings. The donor directory is not a second copy of $17,976,129. FEC.gov controls if a later extract disagrees.

If a later Commission extract reprints 07042, compare it to $17,976,129 and 52,122 on the live hub before quoting this snapshot. Keep the leading zero in every match key. Named receipts remain the way to see committees. The donor directory is not a second copy of those two facts.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tied to ZIP 07042?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor ZIP 07042 total $17,976,129 across 52,122 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a ZIP roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of Montclair residents. Unitemized gifts sit outside it. The mean of about $345 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.

How many FEC contributions are tagged to ZIP 07042?

LobbyVault counts 52,122 itemized contributions for ZIP 07042. That is a line count, not a headcount of unique people. Repeat gifts and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The matching dollar total on the same extract is $17,976,129.

Why does ZIP 07042 start with a zero?

New Jersey ZIPs are five-digit codes. 07042 is the contributor ZIP on the FEC itemization. Dropping the leading zero breaks matches against the Commission file. Committees and office addresses that file 07042 can be part of $17,976,129. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. Open named receipts on the ZIP hub to see which committees appear.

Where does LobbyVault get ZIP 07042 totals?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $17,976,129 and 52,122 lines for ZIP 07042. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and New Jersey state filings are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.