Madison, New Jersey

Madison population, 2020 to 2024

Madison lost 347 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +23. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 193rd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Madison is 1.5 times that size.

Madison covers 4.31 square miles of land, for 3,841 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Madison is less dense than the typical town.

What county Madison is in

All of Madison's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Madison holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Madison

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Madison by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07940. 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 Madison is

The Census internal point of Madison is at 40.758000, -74.417800. Trenton, the capital, is 41.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Summit, NJ (23,102 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Newark, NJ, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Madison

At 40.76° N, Madison 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 Madison

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Florham Park, 1.7 miles away, with 14,533 people.