Cape May, New Jersey

Cape May population, 2020 to 2024

Cape May lost 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by -21.

Cape May covers 2.47 square miles of land and 0.42 of water, for 1,110 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Cape May is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cape May is in

All of Cape May's residents live in Cape May County, which had 93,875 residents in 2024. Cape May holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cape May

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cape May by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08204. 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 Cape May is

The Census internal point of Cape May is at 38.941100, -74.898400. Trenton, the capital, is 88.8 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wildwood Crest, NJ (3,036 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 74.9 miles away.

Daylight in Cape May

At 38.94° N, Cape May gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cape May

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Wildwood Crest, 3.9 miles away, with 3,036 people.