Palmyra, New Jersey

Palmyra population, 2020 to 2024

Palmyra added 145 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +65. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 92nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Palmyra is 68% of it.

Palmyra covers 1.85 square miles of land and 0.76 of water, for 4,101 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Palmyra is close to the typical town.

What county Palmyra is in

All of Palmyra's residents live in Burlington County, which had 475,515 residents in 2024. Palmyra holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmyra

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palmyra by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08065. 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 Palmyra is

The Census internal point of Palmyra is at 40.003100, -75.035900. Trenton, the capital, is 21.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Philadelphia, PA (1,573,916 people), 5.2 miles away.

Daylight in Palmyra

At 40.00° N, Palmyra 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 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palmyra

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Riverton, 1.3 miles away, with 2,816 people.