Paulsboro, New Jersey

Paulsboro population, 2020 to 2024

Paulsboro added 122 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +40. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Paulsboro is 56% of it.

Paulsboro covers 1.92 square miles of land and 0.71 of water, for 3,290 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Paulsboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Paulsboro is in

All of Paulsboro's residents live in Gloucester County, which had 311,783 residents in 2024. Paulsboro holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Paulsboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Paulsboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08066. 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 Paulsboro is

The Census internal point of Paulsboro is at 39.840000, -75.240000. Trenton, the capital, is 36.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Folcroft, PA (6,827 people), 3.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Paulsboro

At 39.84° N, Paulsboro gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Paulsboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is National Park, 3.4 miles away, with 3,085 people.