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
Orange pin: Little Silver. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Trenton.

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.

6,13920206,11320216,09620226,08620236,1012024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 6,148. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

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
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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.

  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.