Rockaway, New Jersey

Rockaway population, 2020 to 2024

Rockaway added 69 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +12. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 152nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Rockaway is 59% of it.

Rockaway covers 2.08 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,198 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Rockaway is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockaway is in

All of Rockaway's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Rockaway holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockaway

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockaway by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07866. 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 Rockaway is

The Census internal point of Rockaway is at 40.895900, -74.517300. Trenton, the capital, is 48.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dover, NJ (18,909 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 18.6 miles away.

Daylight in Rockaway

At 40.90° N, Rockaway 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 Rockaway

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Victory Gardens, 1.9 miles away, with 1,596 people.