Rockland, Maine

Rockland population, 2020 to 2024

Rockland added 111 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -13. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Rockland is 39% of it.

Rockland covers 12.85 square miles of land and 2.23 of water, for 549 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Rockland is close to the typical town.

What county Rockland is in

All of Rockland's residents live in Knox County, which had 40,981 residents in 2024. Rockland holds 17.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04841. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Rockland is

The Census internal point of Rockland is at 44.123900, -69.130500. Augusta, the capital, is 34.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Augusta, ME (19,168 people), 33.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 140.1 miles away.

Daylight in Rockland

At 44.12° N, Rockland gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Belfast, 21.5 miles away, with 6,993 people.