Oakland, New Jersey

Oakland population, 2020 to 2024

Oakland added 210 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +133. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 108th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Oakland is 1.2 times that size.

Oakland covers 8.51 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 1,519 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Oakland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oakland is in

All of Oakland's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Oakland holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oakland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oakland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07436. 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 Oakland is

The Census internal point of Oakland is at 41.031000, -74.240500. Trenton, the capital, is 62.2 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ramsey, NJ (15,003 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 9.0 miles away.

Daylight in Oakland

At 41.03° N, Oakland gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oakland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Franklin Lakes, 2.4 miles away, with 11,251 people.