Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack population, 2020 to 2024

Hackensack added 722 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +475. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 116th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Hackensack is 4.2 times that size.

Hackensack covers 4.19 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 11,129 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Hackensack is denser than the typical town.

What county Hackensack is in

All of Hackensack's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Hackensack holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hackensack

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hackensack by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 07601. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hackensack is

The Census internal point of Hackensack is at 40.889400, -74.045700. Trenton, the capital, is 59.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Passaic, NJ (70,722 people), 4.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 6.3 miles away.

Daylight in Hackensack

At 40.89° N, Hackensack 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hackensack

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Maywood, 1.3 miles away, with 10,221 people.