Pennsylvania · Census place 4205216

Bell Acres, Pennsylvania

Bell Acres is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 1,468 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 504th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,468
#504 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
-2.5%
-38 people
Land area
5.4 sq mi
Density
274 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Bell Acres. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Bell Acres population, 2020 to 2024

Bell Acres lost 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -2.

1,50620201,49620211,48220221,47020231,4682024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,506. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Bell Acres covers 5.35 square miles of land, for 274 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Bell Acres is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bell Acres is in

All of Bell Acres's residents live in Allegheny County, which had 1,231,814 residents in 2024. Bell Acres holds 0.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bell Acres

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bell Acres by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15143. 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 Bell Acres is

The Census internal point of Bell Acres is at 40.589800, -80.173800. Harrisburg, the capital, is 174.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Edgeworth, PA (1,631 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 14.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.589800, -80.173800
DMS
40°35'23.28"N 80°10'25.68"W
UTM
17N 569914.1E 4493550.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
86GXHRQG+WF

Daylight in Bell Acres

At 40.59° N, Bell Acres gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bell Acres

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Edgeworth, 2.6 miles away, with 1,631 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Bell Acres, PA?

1,468 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 38 (2.5%) from 1,506 in July 2020.

What county is Bell Acres in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Bell Acres?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 15143.

How far is Bell Acres from Harrisburg?

174.5 miles (280.8 km) in a straight line, heading E from Bell Acres.

What is the nearest larger city to Bell Acres?

Edgeworth, PA, with 1,631 residents, 2.6 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.