Wanaque, New Jersey

Wanaque population, 2020 to 2024

Wanaque added 71 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +156. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 162nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Wanaque is 1.0 times that size.

Wanaque covers 8.06 square miles of land and 1.26 of water, for 1,408 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Wanaque is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wanaque is in

All of Wanaque's residents live in Passaic County, which had 526,597 residents in 2024. Wanaque holds 2.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wanaque

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wanaque by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07420, 07465. 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 Wanaque is

The Census internal point of Wanaque is at 41.042400, -74.288600. Trenton, the capital, is 61.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oakland, NJ (12,926 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 11.0 miles away.

Daylight in Wanaque

At 41.04° N, Wanaque gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wanaque

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Bloomingdale, 2.5 miles away, with 7,795 people.