Absecon, New Jersey

Absecon population, 2020 to 2024

Absecon added 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +67. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 122nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Absecon is 82% of it.

Absecon covers 5.53 square miles of land and 1.69 of water, for 1,673 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Absecon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Absecon is in

All of Absecon's residents live in Atlantic County, which had 279,114 residents in 2024. Absecon holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Absecon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Absecon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08201. 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 Absecon is

The Census internal point of Absecon is at 39.423600, -74.493000. Trenton, the capital, is 56.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pleasantville, NJ (20,924 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 52.9 miles away.

Daylight in Absecon

At 39.42° N, Absecon gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Absecon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Pleasantville, 2.7 miles away, with 20,924 people.