Long Branch, New Jersey

Long Branch population, 2020 to 2024

Long Branch added 1,542 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.9%. In the latest year it moved by +356. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Long Branch is 3.0 times that size.

Long Branch covers 5.12 square miles of land and 1.16 of water, for 6,487 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Long Branch is denser than the typical town.

What county Long Branch is in

All of Long Branch's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Long Branch holds 5.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Long Branch

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Long Branch by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 07740. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Long Branch is

The Census internal point of Long Branch is at 40.295400, -73.989900. Trenton, the capital, is 40.7 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sayreville, NJ (47,165 people), 21.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 25.5 miles away.

Daylight in Long Branch

At 40.30° N, Long Branch 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 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Long Branch

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is West Long Branch, 1.7 miles away, with 8,604 people.