New Jersey · Census place 3440770
Little Silver, New Jersey
Little Silver is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey with an estimated 6,101 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 177th largest of 294 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 6,101
- #177 of 294 in New Jersey
- Change since 2020
- -0.6%
- -38 people
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- + 0.61 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,251 / sq mi
- State median 4,474
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Little Silver population, 2020 to 2024
Little Silver lost 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +15. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 184th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Little Silver is 54% of it.
Little Silver covers 2.71 square miles of land and 0.61 of water, for 2,251 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Little Silver is less dense than the typical town.
What county Little Silver is in
All of Little Silver's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Little Silver holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Little Silver
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Little Silver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07739. 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 Little Silver is
The Census internal point of Little Silver is at 40.337000, -74.034500. Trenton, the capital, is 38.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oceanport, NJ (6,383 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 23.1 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.337000, -74.034500
- DMS
- 40°20'13.20"N 74°02'4.20"W
- UTM
- 18N 582008.9E 4465609.3N
- Geohash
- dr5m7r1sp
- Plus code
- 87G78XP8+Q6
Daylight in Little Silver
At 40.34° N, Little Silver gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 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 Little Silver
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Shrewsbury, 1.4 miles away, with 4,167 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Little Silver, NJ?
6,101 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 38 (0.6%) from 6,139 in July 2020.
What county is Little Silver in?
Monmouth County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Little Silver?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 07739.
How far is Little Silver from Trenton?
38.9 miles (62.5 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Little Silver.
What is the nearest larger city to Little Silver?
Oceanport, NJ, with 6,383 residents, 1.6 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.