Dunellen, New Jersey

Dunellen population, 2020 to 2024

Dunellen added 793 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.4%. In the latest year it moved by +113. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Dunellen is 75% of it.

Dunellen covers 1.06 square miles of land, for 7,935 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Dunellen is denser than the typical town.

What county Dunellen is in

All of Dunellen's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 890,119 residents in 2024. Dunellen 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 Dunellen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dunellen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08812. 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 Dunellen is

The Census internal point of Dunellen is at 40.590300, -74.465700. Trenton, the capital, is 29.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Middlesex, NJ (14,874 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 15.2 miles away.

Daylight in Dunellen

At 40.59° N, Dunellen 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 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dunellen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Middlesex, 2.0 miles away, with 14,874 people.