Milton, Delaware

Milton population, 2020 to 2024

Milton added 438 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.1%. In the latest year it moved by +96.

Milton covers 1.86 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 2,028 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Milton is denser than the typical town.

What county Milton is in

All of Milton's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Milton holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Milton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19968. 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 Milton is

The Census internal point of Milton is at 38.775100, -75.309900. Dover, the capital, is 28.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Georgetown, DE (8,098 people), 7.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 78.7 miles away.

Daylight in Milton

At 38.78° N, Milton gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 27 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Georgetown, 7.2 miles away, with 8,098 people.