Margate City, New Jersey

Margate City population, 2020 to 2024

Margate City lost 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +47. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 188th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Margate City is 47% of it.

Margate City covers 1.42 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 3,689 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Margate City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Margate City is in

All of Margate City's residents live in Atlantic County, which had 279,114 residents in 2024. Margate City holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Margate City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Margate City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08402. 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 Margate City is

The Census internal point of Margate City is at 39.330900, -74.506800. Trenton, the capital, is 62.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ventnor City, NJ (9,372 people), 1.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 57.5 miles away.

Daylight in Margate City

At 39.33° N, Margate City gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Margate City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Ventnor City, 1.5 miles away, with 9,372 people.