Ridgewood, New Jersey

Ridgewood population, 2020 to 2024

Ridgewood added 802 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.1%. In the latest year it moved by +274. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Ridgewood is 2.4 times that size.

Ridgewood covers 5.74 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 4,652 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Ridgewood is close to the typical town.

What county Ridgewood is in

All of Ridgewood's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Ridgewood holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ridgewood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ridgewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 07450. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ridgewood is

The Census internal point of Ridgewood is at 40.981600, -74.113500. Trenton, the capital, is 62.4 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fair Lawn, NJ (36,489 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Ridgewood

At 40.98° N, Ridgewood gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ridgewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Ho-Ho-Kus, 1.5 miles away, with 4,342 people.