Dumfries, Virginia

Dumfries population, 2020 to 2024

Dumfries added 259 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.5%. In the latest year it moved by +41. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 10th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Dumfries is 36% of it.

Dumfries covers 1.54 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,882 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Dumfries is denser than the typical town.

What county Dumfries is in

All of Dumfries's residents live in Prince William County, which had 497,003 residents in 2024. Dumfries holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dumfries

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dumfries by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 22026. 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 Dumfries is

The Census internal point of Dumfries is at 38.567300, -77.322400. Richmond, the capital, is 71.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Manassas, VA (43,616 people), 15.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Alexandria, VA, 21.6 miles away.

Daylight in Dumfries

At 38.57° N, Dumfries gets about 14 h 52 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 28 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dumfries

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Occoquan, 8.6 miles away, with 1,063 people.