Garwood, New Jersey

Garwood population, 2020 to 2024

Garwood added 916 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +20.7%. In the latest year it moved by +99. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Garwood is 48% of it.

Garwood covers 0.65 square miles of land, for 8,225 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Garwood is denser than the typical town.

What county Garwood is in

All of Garwood's residents live in Union County, which had 594,160 residents in 2024. Garwood 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 Garwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Garwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07027. 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 Garwood is

The Census internal point of Garwood is at 40.651300, -74.323200. Trenton, the capital, is 37.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westfield, NJ (32,050 people), 1.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 6.9 miles away.

Daylight in Garwood

At 40.65° N, Garwood 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Garwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Westfield, 1.1 miles away, with 32,050 people.