Delaware · Census place 1006730
Blades, Delaware
Blades is a town in Sussex County, Delaware with an estimated 1,330 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 28th largest of 33 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 1,330
- #28 of 33 in Delaware
- Change since 2020
- +12.8%
- +151 people
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,418 / sq mi
- State median 1,762
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Blades population, 2020 to 2024
Blades added 151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.8%. In the latest year it moved by +35.
Blades covers 0.55 square miles of land, for 2,418 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Blades is denser than the typical town.
What county Blades is in
All of Blades's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Blades holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Blades
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Blades by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19973. 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 Blades is
The Census internal point of Blades is at 38.635200, -75.602500. Dover, the capital, is 36.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seaford, DE (8,952 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 71.0 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 38.635200, -75.602500
- DMS
- 38°38'6.72"N 75°36'9.00"W
- UTM
- 18N 447561.4E 4276467.8N
- Geohash
- dqf5z97fq
- Plus code
- 87C6J9PW+3X
Daylight in Blades
At 38.64° N, Blades 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 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Blades
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Seaford, 1.6 miles away, with 8,952 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Blades, DE?
1,330 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 151 (12.8%) from 1,179 in July 2020.
What county is Blades in?
Sussex County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Blades?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 19973.
How far is Blades from Dover?
36.3 miles (58.5 km) in a straight line, heading N from Blades.
What is the nearest larger city to Blades?
Seaford, DE, with 8,952 residents, 1.6 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.