Summit, New Jersey

Summit population, 2020 to 2024

Summit added 463 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +391. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 81st; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Summit is 2.1 times that size.

Summit covers 5.99 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,857 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Summit is less dense than the typical town.

What county Summit is in

All of Summit's residents live in Union County, which had 594,160 residents in 2024. Summit holds 3.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Summit

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Summit by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 07901. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Summit is

The Census internal point of Summit is at 40.715600, -74.364700. Trenton, the capital, is 39.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westfield, NJ (32,050 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Elizabeth, NJ, 9.6 miles away.

Daylight in Summit

At 40.72° N, Summit 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 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Summit

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Chatham, 2.0 miles away, with 10,062 people.