The district consists of portions of Essex, Hudson and Union counties, and includes the cities of Newark and Orange.

The district is majority African American and is represented in Congress by Democrat LaMonica McIver, who was sworn in on September 23, 2024, to finish the term of the late Donald Payne, Jr.

On November 15, 2012, Donald Payne Jr. was sworn into office and on January 3, 2013, he began serving his first full term.

[3] The 10th congressional district (together with the 9th) was created starting with the 58th United States Congress in 1903, based on redistricting predicated on the results of the 1900 census.

[2] For the 118th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2020 census), the district contains all or portions of three counties and 18 municipalities.