Milford, New Jersey

Milford population, 2020 to 2024

Milford lost 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Milford covers 1.18 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,039 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Milford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Milford is in

All of Milford's residents live in Hunterdon County, which had 131,708 residents in 2024. Milford holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08848. 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 Milford is

The Census internal point of Milford is at 40.573500, -75.089700. Trenton, the capital, is 30.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Frenchtown, NJ (1,495 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Milford

At 40.57° N, Milford 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 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Frenchtown, 3.5 miles away, with 1,495 people.