Sanford, Maine

Sanford population, 2020 to 2024

Sanford added 524 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +154. Among 20 Maine places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +1.6%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maine has 18,252 people, so Sanford is 1.2 times that size.

Sanford covers 47.79 square miles of land and 0.96 of water, for 471 people per square mile of land. The median Maine place of 5,000+ has 548, so Sanford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sanford is in

All of Sanford's residents live in York County, which had 220,143 residents in 2024. Sanford holds 10.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sanford

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sanford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 04073, 04083. 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 Sanford is

The Census internal point of Sanford is at 43.424100, -70.757900. Augusta, the capital, is 78.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rochester, NH (33,598 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Manchester, NH, 46.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sanford

At 43.42° N, Sanford gets about 15 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sanford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maine, measured between internal points. The closest is Biddeford, 18.3 miles away, with 22,370 people.