Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown population, 2020 to 2024

Middletown added 1,640 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +513. Among 21 Connecticut places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +2.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Connecticut has 55,379 people, so Middletown is 88% of it.

Middletown covers 41.02 square miles of land and 1.35 of water, for 1,185 people per square mile of land. The median Connecticut place of 5,000+ has 3,189, so Middletown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Middletown is in

All of Middletown's residents live in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, which had 177,540 residents in 2024. Middletown holds 27.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Middletown

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Middletown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 06457, 06459. 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 Middletown is

The Census internal point of Middletown is at 41.548600, -72.656800. Hartford, the capital, is 14.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Meriden, CT (60,849 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Hartford, CT, 15.1 miles away.

Daylight in Middletown

At 41.55° N, Middletown 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 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Middletown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Connecticut, measured between internal points. The closest is Meriden, 7.2 miles away, with 60,849 people.