Freehold, New Jersey

Freehold population, 2020 to 2024

Freehold added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 172nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Freehold is 1.1 times that size.

Freehold covers 1.93 square miles of land, for 6,492 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Freehold is denser than the typical town.

What county Freehold is in

All of Freehold's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Freehold holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Freehold

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Freehold by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07728. 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 Freehold is

The Census internal point of Freehold is at 40.260200, -74.275900. Trenton, the capital, is 25.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tinton Falls, NJ (19,435 people), 9.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 28.4 miles away.

Daylight in Freehold

At 40.26° N, Freehold gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Freehold

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Englishtown, 5.1 miles away, with 2,343 people.