Malden, Massachusetts

Malden population, 2020 to 2024

Malden added 607 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +853. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Malden is 1.5 times that size.

Malden covers 5.05 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 13,207 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Malden is denser than the typical town.

What county Malden is in

All of Malden's residents live in Middlesex County, which had 1,668,956 residents in 2024. Malden holds 4.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Malden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Malden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 02148. 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 Malden is

The Census internal point of Malden is at 42.429400, -71.058700. Boston, the capital, is 4.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Somerville, MA (82,149 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cambridge, MA, 4.8 miles away.

Daylight in Malden

At 42.43° N, Malden gets about 15 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 14 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Malden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Everett, 1.6 miles away, with 51,825 people.