Meriden, Connecticut

Meriden population, 2020 to 2024

Meriden added 227 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +411. Among 21 Connecticut places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Connecticut has 55,379 people, so Meriden is 1.1 times that size.

Meriden covers 23.73 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 2,564 people per square mile of land. The median Connecticut place of 5,000+ has 3,189, so Meriden is less dense than the typical town.

What county Meriden is in

All of Meriden's residents live in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, which had 576,718 residents in 2024. Meriden holds 10.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Meriden

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Meriden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 06450, 06451. 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 Meriden is

The Census internal point of Meriden is at 41.536800, -72.794500. Hartford, the capital, is 16.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Britain, CT (75,871 people), 9.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Waterbury, CT, 12.6 miles away.

Daylight in Meriden

At 41.54° N, Meriden gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Meriden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Connecticut, measured between internal points. The closest is Middletown, 7.2 miles away, with 48,616 people.