Roseland, New Jersey

Roseland population, 2020 to 2024

Roseland added 98 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +97. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 117th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Roseland is 57% of it.

Roseland covers 3.62 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,760 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Roseland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Roseland is in

All of Roseland's residents live in Essex County, which had 881,527 residents in 2024. Roseland holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Roseland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Roseland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07068. 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 Roseland is

The Census internal point of Roseland is at 40.821700, -74.310100. Trenton, the capital, is 47.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Caldwell, NJ (9,326 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Newark, NJ, 9.9 miles away.

Daylight in Roseland

At 40.82° N, Roseland gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Roseland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Essex Fells, 1.8 miles away, with 2,220 people.