Pennsylvania · Census place 4212504
Chalfont, Pennsylvania
Chalfont is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 4,415 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 224th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 4,415
- #224 of 597 in Pennsylvania
- Change since 2020
- +3.5%
- +150 people
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- + 0.02 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,725 / sq mi
- State median 3,911
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Chalfont population, 2020 to 2024
Chalfont added 150 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +9.
Chalfont covers 1.62 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 2,725 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Chalfont is less dense than the typical town.
What county Chalfont is in
All of Chalfont's residents live in Bucks County, which had 650,131 residents in 2024. Chalfont holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Chalfont
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chalfont by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18914. 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 Chalfont is
The Census internal point of Chalfont is at 40.289000, -75.209600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 88.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Doylestown, PA (8,382 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 19.8 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 40.289000, -75.209600
- DMS
- 40°17'20.40"N 75°12'34.56"W
- UTM
- 18N 482184.3E 4459855.3N
- Geohash
- dr4t0w6h3
- Plus code
- 87G67QQR+H5
Daylight in Chalfont
At 40.29° N, Chalfont gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Chalfont
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is New Britain, 1.8 miles away, with 2,814 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Chalfont, PA?
4,415 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 150 (3.5%) from 4,265 in July 2020.
What county is Chalfont in?
Bucks County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Chalfont?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 18914.
How far is Chalfont from Harrisburg?
88.3 miles (142.1 km) in a straight line, heading W from Chalfont.
What is the nearest larger city to Chalfont?
Doylestown, PA, with 8,382 residents, 4.7 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.