Pennsylvania · Census place 4204688

Beaver, Pennsylvania

Beaver is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 4,336 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 226th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,336
#226 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
-2.0%
-89 people
Land area
0.9 sq mi
+ 0.21 sq mi water
Density
4,713 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Beaver. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Beaver population, 2020 to 2024

Beaver lost 89 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -11.

4,42520204,41120214,36620224,34720234,3362024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,436. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Beaver covers 0.92 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 4,713 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Beaver is denser than the typical town.

What county Beaver is in

All of Beaver's residents live in Beaver County, which had 165,540 residents in 2024. Beaver holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Beaver

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Beaver by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15009. 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 Beaver is

The Census internal point of Beaver is at 40.693500, -80.307600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 182.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Monaca, PA (5,466 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 24.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.693500, -80.307600
DMS
40°41'36.60"N 80°18'27.36"W
UTM
17N 558501.0E 4504964.0N
Geohash
dpnzs81bc
Plus code
86GXMMVR+CX

Daylight in Beaver

At 40.69° N, Beaver 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Beaver

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Rochester, 1.4 miles away, with 3,382 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Beaver, PA?

4,336 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 89 (2.0%) from 4,425 in July 2020.

What county is Beaver in?

Beaver County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Beaver?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 15009.

How far is Beaver from Harrisburg?

182.3 miles (293.5 km) in a straight line, heading E from Beaver.

What is the nearest larger city to Beaver?

Monaca, PA, with 5,466 residents, 1.9 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.