Aberdeen, Maryland

Aberdeen population, 2020 to 2024

Aberdeen added 2,181 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.4%. In the latest year it moved by +441. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Aberdeen is 1.8 times that size.

Aberdeen covers 6.96 square miles of land, for 2,651 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Aberdeen is close to the typical town.

What county Aberdeen is in

All of Aberdeen's residents live in Harford County, which had 265,514 residents in 2024. Aberdeen holds 6.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Aberdeen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Aberdeen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 21001. 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 Aberdeen is

The Census internal point of Aberdeen is at 39.516400, -76.174500. Annapolis, the capital, is 40.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newark, DE (30,506 people), 24.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 27.7 miles away.

Daylight in Aberdeen

At 39.52° N, Aberdeen gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Aberdeen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Havre de Grace, 3.9 miles away, with 15,222 people.