Rutherford, New Jersey

Rutherford population, 2020 to 2024

Rutherford added 424 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +190. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Rutherford is 1.7 times that size.

Rutherford covers 2.78 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 6,912 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Rutherford is denser than the typical town.

What county Rutherford is in

All of Rutherford's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Rutherford holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rutherford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rutherford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07070. 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 Rutherford is

The Census internal point of Rutherford is at 40.820300, -74.106000. Trenton, the capital, is 53.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Passaic, NJ (70,722 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 7.1 miles away.

Daylight in Rutherford

At 40.82° N, Rutherford 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 Rutherford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is East Rutherford, 1.1 miles away, with 10,624 people.