Selbyville, Delaware

Selbyville population, 2020 to 2024

Selbyville added 378 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.0%. In the latest year it moved by +85.

Selbyville covers 3.86 square miles of land, for 851 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Selbyville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Selbyville is in

All of Selbyville's residents live in Sussex County, which had 271,134 residents in 2024. Selbyville holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Selbyville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Selbyville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19975. 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 Selbyville is

The Census internal point of Selbyville is at 38.460800, -75.205600. Dover, the capital, is 51.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ocean City, MD (6,884 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 95.3 miles away.

Daylight in Selbyville

At 38.46° N, Selbyville gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Selbyville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Millville, 6.7 miles away, with 2,108 people.