Taneytown, Maryland

Taneytown population, 2020 to 2024

Taneytown added 1,027 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.1%. In the latest year it moved by +4. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Taneytown is 82% of it.

Taneytown covers 3.36 square miles of land, for 2,468 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Taneytown is close to the typical town.

What county Taneytown is in

All of Taneytown's residents live in Carroll County, which had 177,108 residents in 2024. Taneytown holds 4.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Taneytown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Taneytown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 21787. 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 Taneytown is

The Census internal point of Taneytown is at 39.657500, -77.169000. Annapolis, the capital, is 59.3 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westminster, MD (20,662 people), 10.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 38.7 miles away.

Daylight in Taneytown

At 39.66° N, Taneytown 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 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Taneytown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is New Windsor, 8.7 miles away, with 1,758 people.