Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

Clarks Summit population, 2020 to 2024

Clarks Summit added 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Clarks Summit is 61% of it.

Clarks Summit covers 1.59 square miles of land, for 3,201 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Clarks Summit is less dense than the typical town.

What county Clarks Summit is in

All of Clarks Summit's residents live in Lackawanna County, which had 216,859 residents in 2024. Clarks Summit holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clarks Summit

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clarks Summit by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18411. 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 Clarks Summit is

The Census internal point of Clarks Summit is at 41.490200, -75.706500. Harrisburg, the capital, is 104.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dickson City, PA (6,010 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 63.1 miles away.

Daylight in Clarks Summit

At 41.49° N, Clarks Summit gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 01 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clarks Summit

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Clarks Green, 0.9 miles away, with 1,519 people.