Poolesville, Maryland

Poolesville population, 2020 to 2024

Poolesville added 122 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +77. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Poolesville is 58% of it.

Poolesville covers 3.93 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,490 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Poolesville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Poolesville is in

All of Poolesville's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 1,082,273 residents in 2024. Poolesville holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Poolesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Poolesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20837. 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 Poolesville is

The Census internal point of Poolesville is at 39.141800, -77.410500. Annapolis, the capital, is 50.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Leesburg, VA (49,831 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 26.8 miles away.

Daylight in Poolesville

At 39.14° N, Poolesville 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 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Poolesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Gaithersburg, 11.6 miles away, with 70,686 people.