Cape Charles, Virginia

Cape Charles population, 2020 to 2024

Cape Charles added 109 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.2%. In the latest year it moved by +24.

Cape Charles covers 3.55 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 363 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Cape Charles is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cape Charles is in

All of Cape Charles's residents live in Northampton County, which had 12,004 residents in 2024. Cape Charles holds 10.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cape Charles

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cape Charles by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 23310. 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 Cape Charles is

The Census internal point of Cape Charles is at 37.249700, -76.014200. Richmond, the capital, is 80.5 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Poquoson, VA (12,854 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Hampton, VA, 20.9 miles away.

Daylight in Cape Charles

At 37.25° N, Cape Charles gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cape Charles

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Poquoson, 18.0 miles away, with 12,854 people.