Bowie, Maryland

Bowie population, 2020 to 2024

Bowie added 195 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +638. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 31st; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Bowie is 5.8 times that size.

Bowie covers 20.44 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,858 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Bowie is close to the typical town.

What county Bowie is in

All of Bowie's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. Bowie holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bowie

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bowie by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 20715, 20716, 20720, 20721. 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 Bowie is

The Census internal point of Bowie is at 38.954700, -76.738800. Annapolis, the capital, is 13.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Washington, DC (702,250 people), 15.3 miles away.

Daylight in Bowie

At 38.95° N, Bowie gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bowie

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Glenarden, 6.6 miles away, with 6,394 people.