Pennsylvania · Census place 4209432
Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Brownsville is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 2,099 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 415th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 2,099
- #415 of 597 in Pennsylvania
- Change since 2020
- -3.5%
- -77 people
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- + 0.11 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,142 / sq mi
- State median 3,911
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Brownsville population, 2020 to 2024
Brownsville lost 77 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.5%. In the latest year it moved by -14.
Brownsville covers 0.98 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 2,142 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Brownsville is less dense than the typical town.
What county Brownsville is in
All of Brownsville's residents live in Fayette County, which had 123,941 residents in 2024. Brownsville holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Brownsville
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brownsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15417. 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 Brownsville is
The Census internal point of Brownsville is at 40.018900, -79.890000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 159.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is California, PA (4,628 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 29.5 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.018900, -79.890000
- DMS
- 40°01'8.04"N 79°53'24.00"W
- UTM
- 17N 594724.2E 4430445.0N
- Geohash
- dpp5wj1yu
- Plus code
- 87G22496+H2
Daylight in Brownsville
At 40.02° N, Brownsville gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Brownsville
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is California, 3.5 miles away, with 4,628 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Brownsville, PA?
2,099 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 77 (3.5%) from 2,176 in July 2020.
What county is Brownsville in?
Fayette County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Brownsville?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 15417.
How far is Brownsville from Harrisburg?
159.7 miles (257.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Brownsville.
What is the nearest larger city to Brownsville?
California, PA, with 4,628 residents, 3.5 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.