Leonardtown, Maryland

Leonardtown population, 2020 to 2024

Leonardtown added 500 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.0%. In the latest year it moved by +111. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 6th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Leonardtown is 50% of it.

Leonardtown covers 3.85 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,309 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Leonardtown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Leonardtown is in

All of Leonardtown's residents live in St. Mary's County, which had 116,469 residents in 2024. Leonardtown holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Leonardtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Leonardtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20650. 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 Leonardtown is

The Census internal point of Leonardtown is at 38.303900, -76.639700. Annapolis, the capital, is 47.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Plata, MD (11,374 people), 24.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Alexandria, VA, 42.9 miles away.

Daylight in Leonardtown

At 38.30° N, Leonardtown 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 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Leonardtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is La Plata, 24.4 miles away, with 11,374 people.