Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury population, 2020 to 2024

Danbury added 2,597 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +1,429. Among 21 Connecticut places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Connecticut has 55,379 people, so Danbury is 1.6 times that size.

Danbury covers 42.03 square miles of land and 2.24 of water, for 2,110 people per square mile of land. The median Connecticut place of 5,000+ has 3,189, so Danbury is less dense than the typical town.

What county Danbury is in

All of Danbury's residents live in Western Connecticut Planning Region, which had 637,013 residents in 2024. Danbury holds 13.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Danbury

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Danbury by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 06810, 06811. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Danbury is

The Census internal point of Danbury is at 41.398700, -73.478100. Hartford, the capital, is 48.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bridgeport, CT (151,599 people), 20.7 miles away.

Daylight in Danbury

At 41.40° N, Danbury gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Danbury

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Connecticut, measured between internal points. The closest is Newtown, 8.7 miles away, with 1,980 people.