Bessemer, Pennsylvania

Bessemer population, 2020 to 2024

Bessemer lost 29 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Bessemer covers 1.65 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 632 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Bessemer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bessemer is in

All of Bessemer's residents live in Lawrence County, which had 84,233 residents in 2024. Bessemer holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bessemer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bessemer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 16112. 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 Bessemer is

The Census internal point of Bessemer is at 40.977200, -80.488700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 195.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Middletown, OH (1,489 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 45.9 miles away.

Daylight in Bessemer

At 40.98° N, Bessemer gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bessemer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is New Castle, 7.6 miles away, with 21,332 people.