Bayonne, New Jersey

Bayonne population, 2020 to 2024

Bayonne added 2,929 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +2,642. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Bayonne is 6.6 times that size.

Bayonne covers 5.82 square miles of land and 5.40 of water, for 12,806 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Bayonne is denser than the typical town.

What county Bayonne is in

All of Bayonne's residents live in Hudson County, which had 736,185 residents in 2024. Bayonne holds 10.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bayonne

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bayonne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 07002. 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 Bayonne is

The Census internal point of Bayonne is at 40.662500, -74.110200. Trenton, the capital, is 45.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jersey City, NJ (302,824 people), 4.1 miles away.

Daylight in Bayonne

At 40.66° N, Bayonne gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bayonne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Jersey City, 4.1 miles away, with 302,824 people.