Belmar, New Jersey

Belmar population, 2020 to 2024

Belmar lost 45 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +8. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 187th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Belmar is 52% of it.

Belmar covers 1.05 square miles of land and 0.57 of water, for 5,568 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Belmar is denser than the typical town.

What county Belmar is in

All of Belmar's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Belmar holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belmar

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belmar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07719. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Belmar is

The Census internal point of Belmar is at 40.179700, -74.024400. Trenton, the capital, is 38.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asbury Park, NJ (15,473 people), 3.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 33.7 miles away.

Daylight in Belmar

At 40.18° N, Belmar gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Belmar

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake Como, 0.7 miles away, with 1,672 people.