Maryland · Census place 2476550
Sykesville, Maryland
Sykesville is a town in Carroll County, Maryland with an estimated 4,622 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 49th largest of 100 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 4,622
- #49 of 100 in Maryland
- Change since 2020
- +6.8%
- +296 people
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,889 / sq mi
- State median 2,607
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Sykesville population, 2020 to 2024
Sykesville added 296 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.8%. In the latest year it moved by +0.
Sykesville covers 1.60 square miles of land, for 2,889 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Sykesville is denser than the typical town.
What county Sykesville is in
All of Sykesville's residents live in Carroll County, which had 177,108 residents in 2024. Sykesville 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 Sykesville
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sykesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21784. 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 Sykesville is
The Census internal point of Sykesville is at 39.372100, -76.971700. Annapolis, the capital, is 37.4 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Airy, MD (9,914 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 19.9 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 39.372100, -76.971700
- DMS
- 39°22'19.56"N 76°58'18.12"W
- UTM
- 18N 330158.3E 4359924.5N
- Geohash
- dqcrbrqzj
- Plus code
- 87F592CH+R8
Daylight in Sykesville
At 39.37° N, Sykesville gets about 14 h 57 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 23 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Sykesville
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Airy, 9.7 miles away, with 9,914 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Sykesville, MD?
4,622 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 296 (6.8%) from 4,326 in July 2020.
What county is Sykesville in?
Carroll County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Sykesville?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 21784.
How far is Sykesville from Annapolis?
37.4 miles (60.2 km) in a straight line, heading SE from Sykesville.
What is the nearest larger city to Sykesville?
Mount Airy, MD, with 9,914 residents, 9.8 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.