Palmer Town, Massachusetts

Palmer Town population, 2020 to 2024

Palmer Town lost 31 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +46. Among 58 Massachusetts places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +1.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Massachusetts has 44,052 people, so Palmer Town is 28% of it.

Palmer Town covers 31.58 square miles of land and 0.42 of water, for 392 people per square mile of land. The median Massachusetts place of 5,000+ has 2,852, so Palmer Town is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palmer Town is in

All of Palmer Town's residents live in Hampden County, which had 464,151 residents in 2024. Palmer Town holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmer Town

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Palmer Town by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 01009, 01069, 01079, 01080. 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 Palmer Town is

The Census internal point of Palmer Town is at 42.188900, -72.306500. Boston, the capital, is 64.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Springfield, MA (154,888 people), 13.0 miles away.

Daylight in Palmer Town

At 42.19° N, Palmer Town gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Palmer Town

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Massachusetts, measured between internal points. The closest is Springfield, 13.0 miles away, with 154,888 people.