Bethany Beach, Delaware

Bethany Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Bethany Beach added 126 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.2%. In the latest year it moved by +27.

Bethany Beach covers 1.15 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 942 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Bethany Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bethany Beach is in

All of Bethany Beach's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Bethany Beach holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bethany Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bethany Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19930. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bethany Beach is

The Census internal point of Bethany Beach is at 38.537600, -75.064300. Dover, the capital, is 49.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ocean View, DE (3,023 people), 2.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 98.4 miles away.

Daylight in Bethany Beach

At 38.54° N, Bethany Beach gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bethany Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Ocean View, 2.6 miles away, with 3,023 people.