Milford, Delaware

Milford population, 2020 to 2024

Milford added 2,769 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +24.5%. In the latest year it moved by +766. Among 11 Delaware places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +3.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Delaware has 13,326 people, so Milford is 1.1 times that size.

Milford covers 9.86 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,428 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Milford is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Milford spans

Milford crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 14,079 residents as follows; Sussex County holds 57.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 19963. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Milford is

The Census internal point of Milford is at 38.909800, -75.422300. Dover, the capital, is 17.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dover, DE (40,191 people), 18.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 69.2 miles away.

Daylight in Milford

At 38.91° N, Milford gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Frederica, 7.2 miles away, with 1,131 people.