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In Maryland, Even the Loneliest Town (Tylerton) Sits 24 Miles From the Nearest 10,000+ City

By SimpleMapLab·Published 13 May 2026·Rank #45 of 50 states·↑ All 50 states

Tylerton, MD — population 81, Somerset County — is the most isolated inhabited place in Maryland. The nearest city of 10,000+ residents is Princess Anne, MD, sitting 24 straight-line miles away. Maryland has 264 towns under 10,000 residents; Tylerton is the most isolated among them.

Map: Tylerton, MD (Maryland's loneliest inhabited place) and its 5 nearest cities of 10,000+ residents. The brick-red ring shows the empty zone in which no qualifying city exists; the nearest, Princess Anne, sits on its edge 24 miles away.The brick-red dot marks Tylerton, the most isolated inhabited place in Maryland. Up to 5 green dots mark the nearest qualifying cities (population 10,000+), each labelled with name and straight-line distance. The brick-red dashed circle traces the empty zone — radius equal to the distance to the very nearest qualifying city. Lexington Park, MD29 MISalisbury, MD35 MICalifornia, MD36 MICambridge, MD37 MIPrincess Anne, MDTylertonMARYLAND 24 MIsimplemaplab.com / studies / most-remote-places
Tylerton (red dot) and the nearest 10,000+ city, Princess Anne, MD (green dot), separated by 24 straight-line miles.
24 mi
straight-line distance from Tylerton to Princess Anne, MD
81
year-round residents of Tylerton (Census 2020)
7 mi
average distance to nearest anchor across Maryland's 264 small towns
#45
of 50 states ranked by their loneliest town's isolation
Open a radius around Tylerton → /tools/map-radius-tool · Tylerton, MD · 50 mi
The link opens the SimpleMapLab Map Radius Tool with a 50-mile circle drawn around Tylerton. Try expanding the radius to see how far you have to look before encountering any 10,000+ city — the answer is roughly 24 miles in the direction of Princess Anne.

Why this happened

In a state as dense as Maryland, "loneliest town" is a relative title. Tylerton holds it at just 24 miles from Princess Anne — a comfortable half-hour drive in most of the country, but the longest drive between any Maryland town and a qualifying city. Tylerton's 81 residents are the closest thing the state has to small-town America.

Maryland's 5 most isolated towns

The top 5 most-isolated inhabited places in Maryland, sorted by distance to the nearest 10,000+ city.

#TownPop.Distance to nearest 10K+Nearest city
1Tylerton8124 miPrincess Anne, MD
2Ewell26423 miPrincess Anne, MD
3Stockton60620 miPrincess Anne, MD
4Friendsville2,48718 miOakland, MD
5Girdletree39618 miBerlin, MD

How Maryland compares

The states ranked closest to Maryland on this metric. Click any for the dedicated breakdown.

#46 Massachusetts
Provincetown · 23 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#44 Ohio
Lewisville · 25 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#47 Connecticut
Lakeville · 18 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#43 South Carolina
Hampton · 25 mi to the nearest 10K+ city
#42 Indiana
Dugger · 27 mi to the nearest 10K+ city

Draw your own radius

Open a 50-mile circle around Tylerton →

Try the 100-mile radius to see whether a major city falls inside — for Tylerton, it doesn't, because the nearest qualifying city (Princess Anne, MD) sits 24 miles away.

Methodology (brief)

We aggregate the US Census ZCTA dataset by postal city, treating any (postal city, state) pair with ≥ 50 residents as a town. Anchor cities are places with ≥ 10,000 residents. For every Maryland town below the anchor threshold, we compute the straight-line distance to every anchor city in the US (cross-state distances count). The town with the largest minimum distance is Maryland's loneliest. Full methodology on the hub page.

Suggested citation: SimpleMapLab (2026). The Loneliest Towns in America: Maryland. Part of the Most Remote Inhabited Places study. Retrieved from https://www.simplemaplab.com/studies/most-remote-places/maryland. CC-BY 4.0.