Metuchen, New Jersey

Metuchen population, 2020 to 2024

Metuchen added 415 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +266. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Metuchen is 1.4 times that size.

Metuchen covers 2.84 square miles of land, for 5,447 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Metuchen is denser than the typical town.

What county Metuchen is in

All of Metuchen's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 890,119 residents in 2024. Metuchen holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Metuchen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Metuchen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08840. 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 Metuchen is

The Census internal point of Metuchen is at 40.542400, -74.362800. Trenton, the capital, is 30.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South Plainfield, NJ (25,062 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 12.4 miles away.

Daylight in Metuchen

At 40.54° N, Metuchen gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Metuchen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is South Plainfield, 3.5 miles away, with 25,062 people.