Hammonton, New Jersey

Hammonton population, 2020 to 2024

Hammonton added 345 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +148. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Hammonton is 1.3 times that size.

Hammonton covers 40.75 square miles of land and 0.57 of water, for 369 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Hammonton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hammonton is in

All of Hammonton's residents live in Atlantic County, which had 279,114 residents in 2024. Hammonton holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hammonton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hammonton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 08037. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hammonton is

The Census internal point of Hammonton is at 39.660800, -74.767000. Trenton, the capital, is 38.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lindenwold, NJ (21,919 people), 16.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 30.9 miles away.

Daylight in Hammonton

At 39.66° N, Hammonton gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hammonton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Folsom, 6.0 miles away, with 1,840 people.