Manchester, Maryland

Manchester population, 2020 to 2024

Manchester added 36 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Manchester is 54% of it.

Manchester covers 2.41 square miles of land, for 2,257 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Manchester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Manchester is in

All of Manchester's residents live in Carroll County, which had 177,108 residents in 2024. Manchester 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 Manchester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Manchester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21102. 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 Manchester is

The Census internal point of Manchester is at 39.653200, -76.886700. Annapolis, the capital, is 51.2 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hampstead, MD (6,288 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 28.5 miles away.

Daylight in Manchester

At 39.65° N, Manchester 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 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Manchester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Hampstead, 3.2 miles away, with 6,288 people.