Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Lee added 514 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +501. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 140th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Fort Lee is 3.6 times that size.

Fort Lee covers 2.52 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 16,098 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Fort Lee is denser than the typical town.

What county Fort Lee is in

All of Fort Lee's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Fort Lee holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Lee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Lee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07024. 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 Fort Lee is

The Census internal point of Fort Lee is at 40.850600, -73.971000. Trenton, the capital, is 59.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hackensack, NJ (46,630 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Yonkers, NY, 8.5 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Lee

At 40.85° N, Fort Lee gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 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 Fort Lee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Leonia, 1.3 miles away, with 9,492 people.