Elmer, New Jersey

Elmer population, 2020 to 2024

Elmer added 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

Elmer covers 0.89 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,547 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Elmer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elmer is in

All of Elmer's residents live in Salem County, which had 65,874 residents in 2024. Elmer holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elmer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elmer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08318. 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 Elmer is

The Census internal point of Elmer is at 39.592300, -75.174600. Trenton, the capital, is 48.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clayton, NJ (9,016 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 28.9 miles away.

Daylight in Elmer

At 39.59° N, Elmer gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elmer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Clayton, 7.3 miles away, with 9,016 people.