Columbia, Pennsylvania

Columbia population, 2020 to 2024

Columbia added 190 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Columbia is 1.2 times that size.

Columbia covers 2.41 square miles of land, for 4,315 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Columbia is denser than the typical town.

What county Columbia is in

All of Columbia's residents live in Lancaster County, which had 563,293 residents in 2024. Columbia holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Columbia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Columbia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17512. 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 Columbia is

The Census internal point of Columbia is at 40.034900, -76.495900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 25.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elizabethtown, PA (11,993 people), 9.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 51.1 miles away.

Daylight in Columbia

At 40.03° N, Columbia gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 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 Columbia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Wrightsville, 2.0 miles away, with 2,269 people.