Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester population, 2020 to 2024

Chester added 1,357 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by +145. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 19th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Chester is 4.1 times that size.

Chester covers 4.83 square miles of land and 1.17 of water, for 7,050 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Chester is denser than the typical town.

What county Chester is in

All of Chester's residents live in Delaware County, which had 584,882 residents in 2024. Chester holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Chester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Chester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 19013. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Chester is

The Census internal point of Chester is at 39.845600, -75.371900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 85.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilmington, DE (73,176 people), 11.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 17.0 miles away.

Daylight in Chester

At 39.85° N, Chester gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Chester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Upland, 0.8 miles away, with 3,076 people.