Matawan, New Jersey

Matawan population, 2020 to 2024

Matawan added 195 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +6. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Matawan is 87% of it.

Matawan covers 2.27 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 4,290 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Matawan is close to the typical town.

What county Matawan is in

All of Matawan's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. Matawan holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Matawan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Matawan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07747. 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 Matawan is

The Census internal point of Matawan is at 40.411000, -74.236500. Trenton, the capital, is 30.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Amboy, NJ (10,549 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 17.8 miles away.

Daylight in Matawan

At 40.41° N, Matawan gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Matawan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Keyport, 2.4 miles away, with 7,182 people.