New Carrollton, Maryland

New Carrollton population, 2020 to 2024

New Carrollton lost 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +134. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so New Carrollton is 1.3 times that size.

New Carrollton covers 1.57 square miles of land, for 8,691 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so New Carrollton is denser than the typical town.

What county New Carrollton is in

All of New Carrollton's residents live in Prince George's County, which had 966,629 residents in 2024. New Carrollton holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in New Carrollton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps New Carrollton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 20784. 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 New Carrollton is

The Census internal point of New Carrollton is at 38.965600, -76.877500. Annapolis, the capital, is 20.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenbelt, MD (24,843 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 8.6 miles away.

Daylight in New Carrollton

At 38.97° N, New Carrollton gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near New Carrollton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Landover Hills, 1.8 miles away, with 1,799 people.