New Jersey · Census place 3433150

Hopewell, New Jersey

Hopewell is a borough in Mercer County, New Jersey with an estimated 1,938 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 265th largest of 294 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,938
#265 of 294 in New Jersey
Change since 2020
+2.0%
+38 people
Land area
0.7 sq mi
Density
2,692 / sq mi
State median 4,474
Orange pin: Hopewell. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Trenton.

Hopewell population, 2020 to 2024

Hopewell added 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +17.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,909. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Hopewell covers 0.72 square miles of land, for 2,692 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Hopewell is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hopewell is in

All of Hopewell's residents live in Mercer County, which had 392,138 residents in 2024. Hopewell holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hopewell

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hopewell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08525. 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 Hopewell is

The Census internal point of Hopewell is at 40.389300, -74.763800. Trenton, the capital, is 11.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pennington, NJ (2,906 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 32.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.389300, -74.763800
DMS
40°23'21.48"N 74°45'49.68"W
UTM
18N 520047.0E 4470993.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
87G796QP+PF

Daylight in Hopewell

At 40.39° N, Hopewell 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hopewell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Pennington, 4.6 miles away, with 2,906 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Hopewell, NJ?

1,938 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 38 (2.0%) from 1,900 in July 2020.

What county is Hopewell in?

Mercer County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Hopewell?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 08525.

How far is Hopewell from Trenton?

11.6 miles (18.7 km) in a straight line, heading S from Hopewell.

What is the nearest larger city to Hopewell?

Pennington, NJ, with 2,906 residents, 4.7 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.