Denton, Maryland

Denton population, 2020 to 2024

Denton added 204 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +40. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Denton is 50% of it.

Denton covers 5.27 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 958 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Denton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Denton is in

All of Denton's residents live in Caroline County, which had 34,248 residents in 2024. Denton holds 14.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Denton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Denton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21629. 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 Denton is

The Census internal point of Denton is at 38.879400, -75.824500. Annapolis, the capital, is 36.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Easton, MD (17,381 people), 15.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 51.2 miles away.

Daylight in Denton

At 38.88° N, Denton 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 Denton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Ridgely, 6.0 miles away, with 1,646 people.