Fruitland, Maryland

Fruitland population, 2020 to 2024

Fruitland added 440 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.0%. In the latest year it moved by +54. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Fruitland is 59% of it.

Fruitland covers 3.76 square miles of land, for 1,589 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Fruitland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fruitland is in

All of Fruitland's residents live in Wicomico County, which had 106,329 residents in 2024. Fruitland holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fruitland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fruitland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 21826. 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 Fruitland is

The Census internal point of Fruitland is at 38.320400, -75.626500. Annapolis, the capital, is 65.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salisbury, MD (33,616 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 85.2 miles away.

Daylight in Fruitland

At 38.32° N, Fruitland gets about 14 h 50 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fruitland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Salisbury, 4.4 miles away, with 33,616 people.