Thurmont, Maryland

Thurmont population, 2020 to 2024

Thurmont added 108 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +61. Among 46 Maryland places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +1.3%. The median place of 5,000+ in Maryland has 10,155 people, so Thurmont is 62% of it.

Thurmont covers 3.12 square miles of land, for 2,022 people per square mile of land. The median Maryland place of 5,000+ has 2,607, so Thurmont is less dense than the typical town.

What county Thurmont is in

All of Thurmont's residents live in Frederick County, which had 299,317 residents in 2024. Thurmont holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Thurmont

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Thurmont by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 21788. 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 Thurmont is

The Census internal point of Thurmont is at 39.620000, -77.407700. Annapolis, the capital, is 66.1 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Walkersville, MD (6,535 people), 10.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 47.9 miles away.

Daylight in Thurmont

At 39.62° N, Thurmont 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 Thurmont

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Maryland, measured between internal points. The closest is Emmitsburg, 7.5 miles away, with 2,920 people.