Gardner, Massachusetts

Gardner population, 2020 to 2024

Gardner added 159 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +277. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 37th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Gardner is 49% of it.

Gardner covers 22.07 square miles of land and 0.95 of water, for 969 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Gardner is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gardner is in

All of Gardner's residents live in Worcester County, which had 881,248 residents in 2024. Gardner holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gardner

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gardner by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01440. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Gardner is

The Census internal point of Gardner is at 42.584200, -71.988700. Boston, the capital, is 49.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fitchburg, MA (42,145 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Worcester, MA, 23.6 miles away.

Daylight in Gardner

At 42.58° N, Gardner gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gardner

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Fitchburg, 8.9 miles away, with 42,145 people.