West Long Branch, New Jersey

West Long Branch population, 2020 to 2024

West Long Branch added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +27. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 171st; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so West Long Branch is 77% of it.

West Long Branch covers 2.86 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 3,008 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so West Long Branch is less dense than the typical town.

What county West Long Branch is in

All of West Long Branch's residents live in Monmouth County, which had 647,520 residents in 2024. West Long Branch holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West Long Branch

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps West Long Branch by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07764. 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 West Long Branch is

The Census internal point of West Long Branch is at 40.287900, -74.020000. Trenton, the capital, is 39.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Long Branch, NJ (33,214 people), 1.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New York, NY, 26.2 miles away.

Daylight in West Long Branch

At 40.29° N, West Long Branch gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near West Long Branch

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Long Branch, 1.7 miles away, with 33,214 people.