Chesapeake Beach, Maryland

Chesapeake Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Chesapeake Beach added 143 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Chesapeake Beach is 64% of it.

Chesapeake Beach covers 2.69 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 2,418 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Chesapeake Beach is close to the typical town.

What county Chesapeake Beach is in

All of Chesapeake Beach's residents live in Calvert County, which had 94,913 residents in 2024. Chesapeake Beach 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 Chesapeake Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chesapeake Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20732. 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 Chesapeake Beach is

The Census internal point of Chesapeake Beach is at 38.689500, -76.554400. Annapolis, the capital, is 20.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Annapolis, MD (40,689 people), 19.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 29.0 miles away.

Daylight in Chesapeake Beach

At 38.69° N, Chesapeake Beach gets about 14 h 53 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chesapeake Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is North Beach, 1.7 miles away, with 2,178 people.