Northfield, New Jersey

Northfield population, 2020 to 2024

Northfield added 103 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +48. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 145th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Northfield is 76% of it.

Northfield covers 3.58 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 2,382 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Northfield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Northfield is in

All of Northfield's residents live in Atlantic County, which had 279,114 residents in 2024. Northfield holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Northfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Northfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08225. 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 Northfield is

The Census internal point of Northfield is at 39.373100, -74.554100. Trenton, the capital, is 59.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pleasantville, NJ (20,924 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 53.7 miles away.

Daylight in Northfield

At 39.37° N, Northfield gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 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 Northfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Linwood, 2.2 miles away, with 7,072 people.