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New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area

The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area is made up of 22 counties in New York and New Jersey; the largest are Kings County, Queens County, and New York County. About 20,112,448 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 0.1% more than in April 2020.

Bergen County, centralEssex County, centralHudson County, centralHunterdon County, outlyingMiddlesex County, centralMonmouth County, centralMorris County, centralOcean County, centralPassaic County, centralSomerset County, centralSussex County, outlyingUnion County, centralBronx County, centralKings County, centralNassau County, centralNew York County, centralPutnam County, centralQueens County, centralRichmond County, centralRockland County, centralSuffolk County, centralWestchester County, centralNew YorkNewark
Central Outlying 22 counties in New York and New Jersey
Population, July 2025
20,112,448 0.1% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
Counties
22: 20 central, 2 outlying
Land area
6,140 sq mi (15,902 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
States
New York, New Jersey
Combined statistical area
New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA
CBSA code
35620
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Counties in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, largest first

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025Share of the area
Kings CountyNew YorkCentral2,653,96313.2%
Queens CountyNew YorkCentral2,358,18211.7%
New York CountyNew YorkCentral1,664,8628.3%
Suffolk CountyNew YorkCentral1,546,0907.7%
Bronx CountyNew YorkCentral1,406,3327.0%
Nassau CountyNew YorkCentral1,398,9397.0%
Westchester CountyNew YorkCentral1,015,7435.1%
Bergen CountyNew JerseyCentral977,0264.9%
Essex CountyNew JerseyCentral896,3794.5%
Middlesex CountyNew JerseyCentral883,3354.4%
Hudson CountyNew JerseyCentral735,0333.7%
Ocean CountyNew JerseyCentral673,7463.3%
Monmouth CountyNew JerseyCentral651,0353.2%
Union CountyNew JerseyCentral601,8633.0%
Passaic CountyNew JerseyCentral531,6242.6%
Morris CountyNew JerseyCentral524,2512.6%
Richmond CountyNew YorkCentral501,2902.5%
Rockland CountyNew YorkCentral357,3971.8%
Somerset CountyNew JerseyCentral356,4861.8%
Sussex CountyNew JerseyOutlying148,0630.7%
Hunterdon CountyNew JerseyOutlying131,7810.7%
Putnam CountyNew YorkCentral99,0280.5%

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. An outlying county is in the area because of commuting: at least a quarter of its workers have jobs in the central counties, or at least a quarter of the people working there live in them. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal cities, largest first

  1. New York8,483,844 people
  2. Newark310,178 people
  3. Jersey City294,078 people
  4. Lakewood69,585 people
  5. White Plains60,666 people
  6. New Brunswick56,345 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Metropolitan divisions

The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area is big enough to be split into 4 metropolitan divisions, each a job center with the counties that commute to it.

Part of the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 6 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area978,179 people
  2. Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY Metro Area718,377 people
  3. Trenton-Princeton, NJ Metro Area399,289 people
  4. Kingston, NY Metro Area183,330 people
  5. Monticello, NY Micro Area80,586 people
  6. Hemlock Farms, PA Micro Area62,808 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY Metro Area48 mi north
  2. Trenton-Princeton, NJ Metro Area53 mi southwest
  3. Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT Metro Area53 mi northeast
  4. East Stroudsburg, PA Micro Area69 mi west
  5. New Haven, CT Metro Area69 mi northeast
  6. Hemlock Farms, PA Micro Area73 mi northwest
  7. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro Area77 mi southwest
  8. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metro Area81 mi west
  9. Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ Metro Area93 mi south
  10. Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metro Area100 mi northeast
  11. Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT Metro Area114 mi northeast
  12. Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area154 mi northeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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