Every ZIP code in the United States, with weather, radar, trivia and the numbers behind it. Five digits since 1963!

ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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ZIP Codes With the Largest Population in New Jersey

What this measures. Population of the Census tabulation area, ACS 5-year estimate. Source: Census American Community Survey, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Population
1 08701 Lakewood Ocean 139,149
2 07305 Jersey City Hudson 72,161
3 07002 Bayonne Hudson 71,553
4 07055 Passaic Passaic 70,002
5 07087 Union City Hudson 66,463
6 08753 Toms River Ocean 65,448
7 07093 West New York Hudson 63,758
8 07047 North Bergen Hudson 61,250
9 08854 Piscataway Middlesex 61,088
10 07111 Irvington Essex 60,867
11 08861 Perth Amboy Middlesex 59,351
12 08527 Jackson Ocean 58,991
13 07030 Hoboken Hudson 58,668
14 07083 Union Union 58,170
15 08901 New Brunswick Middlesex 57,263
16 07105 Newark Essex 57,093
17 08873 Somerset Somerset 56,327
18 07302 Jersey City Hudson 56,220
19 07728 Freehold Monmouth 55,984
20 08831 Monroe Township Middlesex 55,658
21 07470 Wayne Passaic 54,112
22 07306 Jersey City Hudson 54,017
23 07003 Bloomfield Essex 53,771
24 07104 Newark Essex 52,266
25 07304 Jersey City Hudson 51,306
26 08540 Princeton Mercer 50,388
27 08081 Sicklerville Camden 50,264
28 08816 East Brunswick Middlesex 49,360
29 08021 Clementon Camden 49,305
30 08817 Edison Middlesex 49,020
31 07052 West Orange Essex 48,620
32 07060 Plainfield Union 48,363
33 08053 Marlton Burlington 48,179
34 08234 Egg Harbor Township Atlantic 47,339
35 08302 Bridgeton Cumberland 47,279
36 07960 Morristown Morris 46,702
37 07601 Hackensack Bergen 46,057
38 08054 Mount Laurel Burlington 46,026
39 07036 Linden Union 45,671
40 08360 Vineland Cumberland 45,038
41 07202 Elizabeth Union 44,968
42 07726 Englishtown Monmouth 44,764
43 08844 Hillsborough Somerset 44,463
44 08902 North Brunswick Middlesex 43,932
45 07107 Newark Essex 43,293
46 07307 Jersey City Hudson 42,645
47 08724 Brick Ocean 42,345
48 07666 Teaneck Bergen 41,876
49 08012 Blackwood Camden 41,812
50 08094 Williamstown Gloucester 41,595

Showing the top 50 of 598 ZIP codes in New Jersey that have this figure . 08701 ranks 1st at 139,149, against 41,595 in 50th place.

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