Ocean View, Delaware

Ocean View population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean View added 360 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.5%. In the latest year it moved by +80.

Ocean View covers 2.78 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,087 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Ocean View is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ocean View is in

All of Ocean View's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Ocean View 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 Ocean View

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean View by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19970. 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 Ocean View is

The Census internal point of Ocean View is at 38.526500, -75.109700. Dover, the capital, is 48.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Selbyville, DE (3,285 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 96.7 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean View

At 38.53° N, Ocean View gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean View

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Millville, 1.3 miles away, with 2,108 people.