Paterson, NJ Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 150 m380 ft 115 m320 ft 100 m210 ft 65 m87 ft 27 m28 ft 9 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paterson sits at about 100 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
100 ft 30 m
most residents: 66–160 ft
Lowest
28 ft 9 m
on the southeast side
Highest
500 ft 150 m
on the south side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Paterson spans about 472 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 100 ft30 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 500 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 28 ft9 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paterson | 84 ft26 m |
| Airport (EWR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the city limits | 18 ft5 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States
- Population
- 160,463 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 19,073 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9168° N, 74.1718° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Passaic River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Newark Liberty International (EWR) 18 ft
- ZIP codes 9
- 07501 07502 07503 07504 07505 07513 07514 07522 07524
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- William Paterson University of New Jersey510 ft
- North Haledon390 ft
- Preakness290 ft
- Woodland Park260 ft
- Totowa200 ft
- Prospect Park180 ft
- Haledon170 ft
- Hawthorne120 ft
- Paterson100 ft
- Fair Lawn69 ft
- Elmwood Park58 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Jersey412th highest of 941
- Towns in Passaic County26th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Cecchino881 ft
- Stony Hill, Essex County640 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County510 ft
- Packanack Mountain, Passaic County480 ft
- Toms Point220 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.