Delaware · Census place 1020380
Delmar, Delaware
Delmar is a town in Sussex County, Delaware with an estimated 2,278 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 23rd largest of 33 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,278
- #23 of 33 in Delaware
- Change since 2020
- +11.7%
- +238 people
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,199 / sq mi
- State median 1,762
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Delmar population, 2020 to 2024
Delmar added 238 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.7%. In the latest year it moved by +58.
Delmar covers 1.90 square miles of land, for 1,199 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Delmar is less dense than the typical town.
What county Delmar is in
All of Delmar's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Delmar holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Delmar
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Delmar by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19940. 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 Delmar is
The Census internal point of Delmar is at 38.472500, -75.543900. Dover, the capital, is 47.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Delmar, MD (4,748 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 81.0 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 38.472500, -75.543900
- DMS
- 38°28'21.00"N 75°32'38.04"W
- UTM
- 18N 452554.9E 4258382.1N
- Geohash
- dqf6bgwwe
- Plus code
- 87C6FFF4+2C
Daylight in Delmar
At 38.47° N, Delmar gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Delmar
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Laurel, 7.0 miles away, with 4,395 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Delmar, DE?
2,278 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 238 (11.7%) from 2,040 in July 2020.
What county is Delmar in?
Sussex County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Delmar?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 19940.
How far is Delmar from Dover?
47.3 miles (76.1 km) in a straight line, heading N from Delmar.
What is the nearest larger city to Delmar?
Delmar, MD, with 4,748 residents, 2.3 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.