Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown population, 2020 to 2024

Morristown added 611 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +35. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Morristown is 1.8 times that size.

Morristown covers 2.91 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 7,124 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Morristown is denser than the typical town.

What county Morristown is in

All of Morristown's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Morristown holds 4.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morristown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morristown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 07960. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Morristown is

The Census internal point of Morristown is at 40.796600, -74.477300. Trenton, the capital, is 42.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Summit, NJ (23,102 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Newark, NJ, 16.7 miles away.

Daylight in Morristown

At 40.80° N, Morristown 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 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morristown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Morris Plains, 2.9 miles away, with 6,590 people.