Georgetown, Delaware

Georgetown population, 2020 to 2024

Georgetown added 905 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.6%. In the latest year it moved by +201. Among 11 Delaware places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +3.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Delaware has 13,326 people, so Georgetown is 61% of it.

Georgetown covers 5.02 square miles of land, for 1,613 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Georgetown is close to the typical town.

What county Georgetown is in

All of Georgetown's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Georgetown holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Georgetown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Georgetown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19947. 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 Georgetown is

The Census internal point of Georgetown is at 38.689500, -75.387200. Dover, the capital, is 33.1 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seaford, DE (8,952 people), 12.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 78.0 miles away.

Daylight in Georgetown

At 38.69° N, Georgetown gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Georgetown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Milton, 7.2 miles away, with 3,773 people.