North East is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

The Turkey Point Light Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

29.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Private: Tertiary: U.S. Route 40 is the main east–west road directly serving North East.

It passes through a thin stretch of town on the north side via Pulaski Highway, providing connections east to Elkton and west to Perryville.

Outside of the town, MD 272 heads south as Turkey Point Road to Elk Neck State Park and north as North East Road to Chester County, Pennsylvania.

It is accessible via an interchange with MD 272, from which point it heads south toward Baltimore and Washington, D.C. and north toward Wilmington and Philadelphia.

The Route 2 Cross-County Connection bus operated by Cecil Transit runs between Elkton, North East, Cecil College, Perryville (town and the Perryville station along MARC's Penn Line) and Perry Point Veteran's Medical Center.