Elsmere, Delaware

Elsmere population, 2020 to 2024

Elsmere added 11 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 11 Delaware places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +3.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Delaware has 13,326 people, so Elsmere is 47% of it.

Elsmere covers 0.99 square miles of land, for 6,297 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Elsmere is denser than the typical town.

What county Elsmere is in

All of Elsmere's residents live in New Castle County, which had 588,093 residents in 2024. Elsmere holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elsmere

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Elsmere by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19804, 19805. 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 Elsmere is

The Census internal point of Elsmere is at 39.738400, -75.594600. Dover, the capital, is 40.4 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilmington, DE (73,176 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 30.8 miles away.

Daylight in Elsmere

At 39.74° N, Elsmere gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elsmere

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Wilmington, 3.3 miles away, with 73,176 people.