Athens, Pennsylvania

Athens population, 2020 to 2024

Athens lost 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Athens covers 1.75 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,844 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Athens is less dense than the typical town.

What county Athens is in

All of Athens's residents live in Bradford County, which had 59,699 residents in 2024. Athens holds 5.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Athens

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Athens by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18810. 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 Athens is

The Census internal point of Athens is at 41.937500, -76.514000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 117.2 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sayre, PA (5,394 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Syracuse, NY, 78.5 miles away.

Daylight in Athens

At 41.94° N, Athens gets about 15 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Athens

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Sayre, 3.3 miles away, with 5,394 people.