Edgewater, New Jersey

Edgewater population, 2020 to 2024

Edgewater added 626 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +301. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Edgewater is 1.3 times that size.

Edgewater covers 0.97 square miles of land and 1.46 of water, for 15,584 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Edgewater is denser than the typical town.

What county Edgewater is in

All of Edgewater's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Edgewater holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Edgewater

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Edgewater by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07020. 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 Edgewater is

The Census internal point of Edgewater is at 40.824700, -73.973800. Trenton, the capital, is 58.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cliffside Park, NJ (26,183 people), 0.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Jersey City, NJ, 9.1 miles away.

Daylight in Edgewater

At 40.82° N, Edgewater 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 Edgewater

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Cliffside Park, 0.8 miles away, with 26,183 people.