Ocean Gate, New Jersey

Ocean Gate population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean Gate added 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Ocean Gate covers 0.45 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 4,416 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Ocean Gate is close to the typical town.

What county Ocean Gate is in

All of Ocean Gate's residents live in Ocean County, which had 666,434 residents in 2024. Ocean Gate holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocean Gate

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean Gate by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08740. 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 Ocean Gate is

The Census internal point of Ocean Gate is at 39.926500, -74.134800. Trenton, the capital, is 38.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pine Beach, NJ (2,214 people), 2.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 51.2 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean Gate

At 39.93° N, Ocean Gate gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean Gate

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Island Heights, 1.2 miles away, with 1,715 people.