Caldwell, New Jersey

Caldwell population, 2020 to 2024

Caldwell added 353 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +375. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 33rd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Caldwell is 83% of it.

Caldwell covers 1.18 square miles of land, for 7,903 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Caldwell is denser than the typical town.

What county Caldwell is in

All of Caldwell's residents live in Essex County, which had 881,527 residents in 2024. Caldwell holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Caldwell

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Caldwell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07006. 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 Caldwell is

The Census internal point of Caldwell is at 40.839200, -74.277000. Trenton, the capital, is 49.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Totowa, NJ (11,064 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Caldwell

At 40.84° N, Caldwell gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Caldwell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Essex Fells, 0.8 miles away, with 2,220 people.