New Jersey · Census place 3431500
Highlands, New Jersey
Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey with an estimated 4,337 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 213th largest of 294 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 4,337
- #213 of 294 in New Jersey
- Change since 2020
- -6.0%
- -277 people
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- + 0.65 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,861 / sq mi
- State median 4,474
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Highlands population, 2020 to 2024
Highlands lost 277 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.0%. In the latest year it moved by -6.
Highlands covers 0.74 square miles of land and 0.65 of water, for 5,861 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Highlands is denser than the typical town.
What county Highlands is in
All of Highlands's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Highlands holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Highlands
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Highlands by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07732. 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 Highlands is
The Census internal point of Highlands is at 40.404200, -73.988200. Trenton, the capital, is 42.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Atlantic Highlands, NJ (4,402 people), 1.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 18.0 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.404200, -73.988200
- DMS
- 40°24'15.12"N 73°59'17.52"W
- UTM
- 18N 585856.3E 4473112.4N
- Geohash
- dr5mu777t
- Plus code
- 87G8C236+MP
Daylight in Highlands
At 40.40° N, Highlands gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Highlands
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Atlantic Highlands, 1.7 miles away, with 4,402 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Highlands, NJ?
4,337 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 277 (6.0%) from 4,614 in July 2020.
What county is Highlands in?
Monmouth County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Highlands?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 07732.
How far is Highlands from Trenton?
42.4 miles (68.2 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Highlands.
What is the nearest larger city to Highlands?
Atlantic Highlands, NJ, with 4,402 residents, 1.7 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.