Pittsburg, Kansas

Pittsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Pittsburg lost 88 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by -80. Among 63 Kansas places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Kansas has 11,560 people, so Pittsburg is 1.8 times that size.

Pittsburg covers 13.46 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 1,527 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Pittsburg is close to the typical town.

What county Pittsburg is in

All of Pittsburg's residents live in Crawford County, which had 38,904 residents in 2024. Pittsburg holds 52.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pittsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pittsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66762. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pittsburg is

The Census internal point of Pittsburg is at 37.413600, -94.698000. Topeka, the capital, is 124.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Joplin, MO (53,605 people), 25.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Springfield, MO, 78.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pittsburg

At 37.41° N, Pittsburg gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pittsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Frontenac, 3.1 miles away, with 3,412 people.