Rising Sun, Maryland

Rising Sun population, 2020 to 2024

Rising Sun added 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Rising Sun covers 1.65 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,683 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Rising Sun is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rising Sun is in

All of Rising Sun's residents live in Cecil County, which had 106,305 residents in 2024. Rising Sun holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rising Sun

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rising Sun by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21911. 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 Rising Sun is

The Census internal point of Rising Sun is at 39.701400, -76.060200. Annapolis, the capital, is 55.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oxford, PA (5,909 people), 7.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 40.4 miles away.

Daylight in Rising Sun

At 39.70° N, Rising Sun 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 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rising Sun

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Perryville, 8.9 miles away, with 4,510 people.