Prospect Park, New Jersey

Prospect Park population, 2020 to 2024

Prospect Park added 29 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +78. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 167th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Prospect Park is 57% of it.

Prospect Park covers 0.47 square miles of land, for 13,579 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Prospect Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Prospect Park is in

All of Prospect Park's residents live in Passaic County, which had 526,597 residents in 2024. Prospect Park holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Prospect Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Prospect Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07508. 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 Prospect Park is

The Census internal point of Prospect Park is at 40.941600, -74.174100. Trenton, the capital, is 58.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Haledon, NJ (9,063 people), 0.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 1.9 miles away.

Daylight in Prospect Park

At 40.94° N, Prospect Park 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 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Prospect Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Haledon, 0.8 miles away, with 9,063 people.