Bristol, Pennsylvania

Bristol population, 2020 to 2024

Bristol added 127 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +85. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Bristol is 1.2 times that size.

Bristol covers 1.70 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 5,872 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Bristol is denser than the typical town.

What county Bristol is in

All of Bristol's residents live in Bucks County, which had 650,131 residents in 2024. Bristol holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bristol

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bristol by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19007. 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 Bristol is

The Census internal point of Bristol is at 40.102800, -74.852300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 107.8 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Burlington, NJ (10,143 people), 1.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 16.2 miles away.

Daylight in Bristol

At 40.10° N, Bristol gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bristol

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Tullytown, 3.4 miles away, with 2,258 people.