Hawthorne, New Jersey

Hawthorne population, 2020 to 2024

Hawthorne added 439 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +249. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 70th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Hawthorne is 1.8 times that size.

Hawthorne covers 3.32 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 6,026 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Hawthorne is denser than the typical town.

What county Hawthorne is in

All of Hawthorne's residents live in Passaic County, which had 526,597 residents in 2024. Hawthorne holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hawthorne

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hawthorne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07506. 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 Hawthorne is

The Census internal point of Hawthorne is at 40.957000, -74.158600. Trenton, the capital, is 59.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fair Lawn, NJ (36,489 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 2.9 miles away.

Daylight in Hawthorne

At 40.96° N, Hawthorne 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 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hawthorne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Prospect Park, 1.3 miles away, with 6,382 people.