Kearny, New Jersey

Kearny population, 2020 to 2024

Kearny lost 844 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +630. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 192nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Kearny is 3.6 times that size.

Kearny covers 8.84 square miles of land and 1.43 of water, for 4,623 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Kearny is close to the typical town.

What county Kearny is in

All of Kearny's residents live in Hudson County, which had 736,185 residents in 2024. Kearny holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kearny

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kearny by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 07032. 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 Kearny is

The Census internal point of Kearny is at 40.752300, -74.123100. Trenton, the capital, is 49.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newark, NJ (317,303 people), 3.2 miles away.

Daylight in Kearny

At 40.75° N, Kearny gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kearny

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Harrison, 1.7 miles away, with 22,182 people.