Dalton, Pennsylvania

Dalton population, 2020 to 2024

Dalton added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Dalton covers 3.02 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 428 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Dalton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dalton is in

All of Dalton's residents live in Lackawanna County, which had 216,859 residents in 2024. Dalton holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dalton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dalton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18414. 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 Dalton is

The Census internal point of Dalton is at 41.537600, -75.738300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 106.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clarks Green, PA (1,519 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 66.6 miles away.

Daylight in Dalton

At 41.54° N, Dalton 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 Dalton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Factoryville, 2.8 miles away, with 1,122 people.