Laurel, Maryland

Laurel population, 2020 to 2024

Laurel added 255 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +553. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Laurel is 3.0 times that size.

Laurel covers 4.76 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 6,353 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Laurel is denser than the typical town.

What county Laurel is in

All of Laurel's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. Laurel holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Laurel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Laurel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 20707. 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 Laurel is

The Census internal point of Laurel is at 39.095100, -76.861200. Annapolis, the capital, is 21.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is College Park, MD (34,667 people), 7.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 15.6 miles away.

Daylight in Laurel

At 39.10° N, Laurel gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Laurel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Greenbelt, 7.1 miles away, with 24,843 people.