Newtown, Connecticut

Newtown population, 2020 to 2024

Newtown added 73 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +15.

Newtown covers 2.30 square miles of land, for 861 people per square mile of land. The median Connecticut place of 5,000+ has 3,189, so Newtown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Newtown is in

All of Newtown's residents live in Western Connecticut Planning Region, which had 637,013 residents in 2024. Newtown holds 0.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Newtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Newtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 06470. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Newtown is

The Census internal point of Newtown is at 41.411900, -73.311900. Hartford, the capital, is 40.6 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danbury, CT (88,692 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Bridgeport, CT, 16.7 miles away.

Daylight in Newtown

At 41.41° N, Newtown gets about 15 h 11 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 Newtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Connecticut, measured between internal points. The closest is Danbury, 8.7 miles away, with 88,692 people.