Takoma Park, Maryland

Takoma Park population, 2020 to 2024

Takoma Park added 243 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +201. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Takoma Park is 1.8 times that size.

Takoma Park covers 2.09 square miles of land, for 8,544 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Takoma Park is denser than the typical town.

What county Takoma Park is in

All of Takoma Park's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 1,082,273 residents in 2024. Takoma Park holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Takoma Park

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Takoma Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 20912. 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 Takoma Park is

The Census internal point of Takoma Park is at 38.980300, -77.002300. Annapolis, the capital, is 27.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hyattsville, MD (21,052 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 5.3 miles away.

Daylight in Takoma Park

At 38.98° N, Takoma Park gets about 14 h 54 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 26 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 29 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Takoma Park

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Hyattsville, 2.9 miles away, with 21,052 people.