Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt population, 2020 to 2024

Greenbelt lost 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +247. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Greenbelt is 2.4 times that size.

Greenbelt covers 6.24 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 3,981 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Greenbelt is denser than the typical town.

What county Greenbelt is in

All of Greenbelt's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. Greenbelt holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greenbelt

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Greenbelt by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 20770. 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 Greenbelt is

The Census internal point of Greenbelt is at 38.994700, -76.885400. Annapolis, the capital, is 21.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is College Park, MD (34,667 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 9.4 miles away.

Daylight in Greenbelt

At 38.99° N, Greenbelt gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greenbelt

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Berwyn Heights, 1.5 miles away, with 3,325 people.