Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg population, 2020 to 2024

Chambersburg added 1,162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.3%. In the latest year it moved by +726. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Chambersburg is 2.8 times that size.

Chambersburg covers 6.93 square miles of land, for 3,325 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Chambersburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Chambersburg is in

All of Chambersburg's residents live in Franklin County, which had 159,285 residents in 2024. Chambersburg holds 14.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chambersburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chambersburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17201. 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 Chambersburg is

The Census internal point of Chambersburg is at 39.931400, -77.655600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 46.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hagerstown, MD (43,909 people), 20.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 70.7 miles away.

Daylight in Chambersburg

At 39.93° N, Chambersburg 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 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chambersburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Mont Alto, 8.2 miles away, with 1,563 people.