Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester population, 2020 to 2024

Gloucester added 744 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +339. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Gloucester is 69% of it.

Gloucester covers 26.19 square miles of land and 15.32 of water, for 1,164 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Gloucester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Gloucester is in

All of Gloucester's residents live in Essex County, which had 823,938 residents in 2024. Gloucester holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gloucester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gloucester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01930. 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 Gloucester is

The Census internal point of Gloucester is at 42.628900, -70.685900. Boston, the capital, is 26.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Beverly, MA (43,223 people), 9.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Lynn, MA, 17.6 miles away.

Daylight in Gloucester

At 42.63° N, Gloucester gets about 15 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 16 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gloucester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Beverly, 9.5 miles away, with 43,223 people.