Capitol Heights, Maryland

Capitol Heights population, 2020 to 2024

Capitol Heights lost 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +42.

Capitol Heights covers 0.78 square miles of land, for 5,177 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Capitol Heights is denser than the typical town.

What county Capitol Heights is in

All of Capitol Heights's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. Capitol Heights holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Capitol Heights

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Capitol Heights by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20743. 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 Capitol Heights is

The Census internal point of Capitol Heights is at 38.876700, -76.907600. Annapolis, the capital, is 23.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Seat Pleasant, MD (4,518 people), 1.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 6.2 miles away.

Daylight in Capitol Heights

At 38.88° N, Capitol Heights 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 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Capitol Heights

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Seat Pleasant, 1.3 miles away, with 4,518 people.