Glen Ridge, New Jersey

Glen Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Glen Ridge added 451 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +124. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Glen Ridge is 73% of it.

Glen Ridge covers 1.27 square miles of land, for 6,460 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Glen Ridge is denser than the typical town.

What county Glen Ridge is in

All of Glen Ridge's residents live in Essex County, which had 881,527 residents in 2024. Glen Ridge 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 Glen Ridge

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Glen Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07028. 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 Glen Ridge is

The Census internal point of Glen Ridge is at 40.804800, -74.204600. Trenton, the capital, is 49.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is East Orange, NJ (71,850 people), 2.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Newark, NJ, 5.8 miles away.

Daylight in Glen Ridge

At 40.80° N, Glen Ridge 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 Glen Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is East Orange, 2.8 miles away, with 71,850 people.