Hampstead, Maryland

Hampstead population, 2020 to 2024

Hampstead added 46 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +20. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Hampstead is 62% of it.

Hampstead covers 3.34 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,883 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Hampstead is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hampstead is in

All of Hampstead's residents live in Carroll County, which had 177,108 residents in 2024. Hampstead holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hampstead

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hampstead by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21074. 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 Hampstead is

The Census internal point of Hampstead is at 39.614600, -76.854800. Annapolis, the capital, is 48.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westminster, MD (20,662 people), 8.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 25.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hampstead

At 39.61° N, Hampstead gets about 14 h 59 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hampstead

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Manchester, 3.2 miles away, with 5,440 people.