Townsend, Delaware

Townsend population, 2020 to 2024

Townsend added 198 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.2%. In the latest year it moved by +91.

Townsend covers 1.06 square miles of land, for 2,775 people per square mile of land. The median Delaware place of 5,000+ has 1,762, so Townsend is denser than the typical town.

What county Townsend is in

All of Townsend's residents live in New Castle County, which had 588,093 residents in 2024. Townsend holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Townsend

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Townsend by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 19734. 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 Townsend is

The Census internal point of Townsend is at 39.404800, -75.699100. Dover, the capital, is 19.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Middletown, DE (25,686 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 49.2 miles away.

Daylight in Townsend

At 39.40° N, Townsend gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Townsend

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Delaware, measured between internal points. The closest is Middletown, 2.8 miles away, with 25,686 people.