Salisbury, Maryland

Salisbury population, 2020 to 2024

Salisbury added 645 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +244. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Salisbury is 3.3 times that size.

Salisbury covers 13.81 square miles of land and 0.48 of water, for 2,434 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Salisbury is close to the typical town.

What county Salisbury is in

All of Salisbury's residents live in Wicomico County, which had 106,329 residents in 2024. Salisbury holds 31.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salisbury

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Salisbury by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 21801, 21804. 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 Salisbury is

The Census internal point of Salisbury is at 38.375300, -75.585900. Annapolis, the capital, is 64.2 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dover, DE (40,191 people), 54.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 84.4 miles away.

Daylight in Salisbury

At 38.38° N, Salisbury 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 Salisbury

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Fruitland, 4.4 miles away, with 5,973 people.