Laurel, Delaware

Laurel population, 2020 to 2024

Laurel added 499 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.8%. In the latest year it moved by +111.

Laurel covers 2.77 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,587 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Laurel is close to the typical town.

What county Laurel is in

All of Laurel's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Laurel holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laurel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laurel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19956. 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 Laurel is

The Census internal point of Laurel is at 38.571500, -75.571100. Dover, the capital, is 40.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seaford, DE (8,952 people), 6.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 75.2 miles away.

Daylight in Laurel

At 38.57° N, Laurel 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 Laurel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Blades, 4.7 miles away, with 1,330 people.