Lakehurst, New Jersey

Lakehurst population, 2020 to 2024

Lakehurst added 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

Lakehurst covers 0.90 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 3,014 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Lakehurst is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lakehurst is in

All of Lakehurst's residents live in Ocean County, which had 666,434 residents in 2024. Lakehurst holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lakehurst

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lakehurst by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08733. 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 Lakehurst is

The Census internal point of Lakehurst is at 40.013100, -74.320400. Trenton, the capital, is 27.1 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Toms River, NJ (3,756 people), 7.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 43.0 miles away.

Daylight in Lakehurst

At 40.01° N, Lakehurst gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lakehurst

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is South Toms River, 7.9 miles away, with 3,756 people.