Chester, New Jersey

Chester population, 2020 to 2024

Chester added 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Chester covers 1.59 square miles of land, for 1,066 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Chester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chester is in

All of Chester's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Chester holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07930. 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 Chester is

The Census internal point of Chester is at 40.790600, -74.690100. Trenton, the capital, is 39.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mendham, NJ (5,000 people), 5.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 27.4 miles away.

Daylight in Chester

At 40.79° N, Chester gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 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 Chester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Mendham, 5.1 miles away, with 5,000 people.