Point Pleasant, New Jersey

Point Pleasant population, 2020 to 2024

Point Pleasant added 597 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +102. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 44th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Point Pleasant is 1.7 times that size.

Point Pleasant covers 3.49 square miles of land and 0.67 of water, for 5,606 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Point Pleasant is denser than the typical town.

What county Point Pleasant is in

All of Point Pleasant's residents live in Ocean County, which had 666,434 residents in 2024. Point Pleasant holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Point Pleasant

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Point Pleasant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08742. 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 Point Pleasant is

The Census internal point of Point Pleasant is at 40.077700, -74.069900. Trenton, the capital, is 37.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Long Branch, NJ (33,214 people), 15.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 41.0 miles away.

Daylight in Point Pleasant

At 40.08° N, Point Pleasant gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Point Pleasant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Point Pleasant Beach, 1.7 miles away, with 4,941 people.