Ashland, Pennsylvania

Ashland population, 2020 to 2024

Ashland added 27 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Ashland covers 1.66 square miles of land, for 1,504 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Ashland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ashland is in

All of Ashland's residents live in Schuylkill County, which had 144,523 residents in 2024. Ashland holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ashland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ashland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17921. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ashland is

The Census internal point of Ashland is at 40.781100, -76.345000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 45.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Carmel, PA (5,626 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 47.2 miles away.

Daylight in Ashland

At 40.78° N, Ashland gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ashland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Girardville, 3.3 miles away, with 1,322 people.