Spotswood, New Jersey

Spotswood population, 2020 to 2024

Spotswood added 183 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +111. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Spotswood is 74% of it.

Spotswood covers 2.31 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 3,596 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Spotswood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Spotswood is in

All of Spotswood's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 890,119 residents in 2024. Spotswood holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Spotswood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Spotswood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 08884. 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 Spotswood is

The Census internal point of Spotswood is at 40.393600, -74.392700. Trenton, the capital, is 22.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is South River, NJ (16,392 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 21.6 miles away.

Daylight in Spotswood

At 40.39° N, Spotswood gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Spotswood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Helmetta, 1.9 miles away, with 2,504 people.