Pataskala, Ohio

Pataskala population, 2020 to 2024

Pataskala added 578 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +113. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Pataskala is 1.3 times that size.

Pataskala covers 28.96 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 639 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Pataskala is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pataskala is in

All of Pataskala's residents live in Licking County, which had 184,898 residents in 2024. Pataskala holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pataskala

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pataskala by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 43062. 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 Pataskala is

The Census internal point of Pataskala is at 40.019800, -82.719900. Columbus, the capital, is 15.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Reynoldsburg, OH (42,897 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, OH, 14.2 miles away.

Daylight in Pataskala

At 40.02° N, Pataskala gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pataskala

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Reynoldsburg, 5.4 miles away, with 42,897 people.