Passaic, New Jersey

Passaic population, 2020 to 2024

Passaic added 404 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +885. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 164th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Passaic is 6.3 times that size.

Passaic covers 3.13 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 22,595 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Passaic is denser than the typical town.

What county Passaic is in

All of Passaic's residents live in Passaic County, which had 526,597 residents in 2024. Passaic holds 13.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Passaic

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Passaic by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 07055. 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 Passaic is

The Census internal point of Passaic is at 40.857600, -74.129100. Trenton, the capital, is 54.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clifton, NJ (90,322 people), 1.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 4.3 miles away.

Daylight in Passaic

At 40.86° N, Passaic gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 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 Passaic

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Wallington, 1.2 miles away, with 12,060 people.