Chestertown, Maryland

Chestertown population, 2020 to 2024

Chestertown added 183 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +69. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Chestertown is 56% of it.

Chestertown covers 2.88 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,980 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Chestertown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chestertown is in

All of Chestertown's residents live in Kent County, which had 19,557 residents in 2024. Chestertown holds 29.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chestertown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chestertown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21620. 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 Chestertown is

The Census internal point of Chestertown is at 39.218400, -76.074000. Annapolis, the capital, is 27.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Aberdeen, MD (18,451 people), 21.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 29.3 miles away.

Daylight in Chestertown

At 39.22° N, Chestertown gets about 14 h 56 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chestertown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Rock Hall, 10.4 miles away, with 1,200 people.