Leesburg, Virginia

Leesburg population, 2020 to 2024

Leesburg added 1,388 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +363. Among 63 Virginia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Virginia has 16,562 people, so Leesburg is 3.0 times that size.

Leesburg covers 12.58 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 3,961 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Leesburg is denser than the typical town.

What county Leesburg is in

All of Leesburg's residents live in Loudoun County, which had 443,380 residents in 2024. Leesburg holds 11.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Leesburg

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Leesburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 20175, 20176. 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 Leesburg is

The Census internal point of Leesburg is at 39.106400, -77.559200. Richmond, the capital, is 108.5 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gaithersburg, MD (70,686 people), 19.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Washington, DC, 32.3 miles away.

Daylight in Leesburg

At 39.11° N, Leesburg gets about 14 h 55 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 25 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Leesburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Purcellville, 8.4 miles away, with 8,965 people.