Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Bloomsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Bloomsburg added 584 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +15. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Bloomsburg is 1.6 times that size.

Bloomsburg covers 4.35 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 3,054 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Bloomsburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bloomsburg is in

All of Bloomsburg's residents live in Columbia County, which had 66,012 residents in 2024. Bloomsburg holds 20.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bloomsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bloomsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 17815. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bloomsburg is

The Census internal point of Bloomsburg is at 41.002700, -76.456600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 55.7 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hazleton, PA (30,354 people), 25.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 58.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bloomsburg

At 41.00° N, Bloomsburg gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 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 Bloomsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Catawissa, 3.4 miles away, with 1,537 people.