Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Perth Amboy population, 2020 to 2024

Perth Amboy added 1,563 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +891. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Perth Amboy is 5.1 times that size.

Perth Amboy covers 4.66 square miles of land and 1.30 of water, for 12,219 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Perth Amboy is denser than the typical town.

What county Perth Amboy is in

All of Perth Amboy's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 890,119 residents in 2024. Perth Amboy holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Perth Amboy

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Perth Amboy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08861. 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 Perth Amboy is

The Census internal point of Perth Amboy is at 40.520200, -74.271300. Trenton, the capital, is 32.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Brunswick, NJ (57,487 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 10.9 miles away.

Daylight in Perth Amboy

At 40.52° N, Perth Amboy gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Perth Amboy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is South Amboy, 2.4 miles away, with 10,549 people.