Smyrna, Delaware

Smyrna population, 2020 to 2024

Smyrna added 359 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +11. Among 11 Delaware places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +3.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Delaware has 13,326 people, so Smyrna is 1.0 times that size.

Smyrna covers 6.41 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,079 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Smyrna is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Smyrna spans

Smyrna crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 13,326 residents as follows; Kent County holds 99.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Smyrna

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Smyrna by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19977. 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 Smyrna is

The Census internal point of Smyrna is at 39.295300, -75.608700. Dover, the capital, is 10.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dover, DE (40,191 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 53.6 miles away.

Daylight in Smyrna

At 39.30° N, Smyrna gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Smyrna

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Clayton, 1.9 miles away, with 4,511 people.