Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City population, 2020 to 2024

Ocean City added 35 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by -42. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Ocean City is 68% of it.

Ocean City covers 4.43 square miles of land and 5.11 of water, for 1,554 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Ocean City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ocean City is in

All of Ocean City's residents live in Worcester County, which had 54,337 residents in 2024. Ocean City holds 12.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ocean City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ocean City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21842. 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 Ocean City is

The Census internal point of Ocean City is at 38.393100, -75.071200. Annapolis, the capital, is 86.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Millsboro, DE (7,864 people), 18.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 103.8 miles away.

Daylight in Ocean City

At 38.39° N, Ocean City gets about 14 h 51 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 29 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ocean City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Berlin, 8.9 miles away, with 5,349 people.