Pennsylvania · Census place 4218136

Danville, Pennsylvania

Danville is a borough in Montour County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 4,193 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 238th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,193
#238 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
-1.1%
-46 people
Land area
1.6 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
2,688 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Danville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Danville population, 2020 to 2024

Danville lost 46 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

4,23920204,22320214,22220224,18620234,1932024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,244. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Danville covers 1.56 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 2,688 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Danville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Danville is in

All of Danville's residents live in Montour County, which had 18,115 residents in 2024. Danville holds 23.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Danville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Danville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17821. 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 Danville is

The Census internal point of Danville is at 40.961700, -76.612000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 50.3 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bloomsburg, PA (13,286 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 64.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.961700, -76.612000
DMS
40°57'42.12"N 76°36'43.20"W
UTM
18N 364347.3E 4535756.6N
Geohash
dr3908ug5
Plus code
87G5X96Q+M6

Daylight in Danville

At 40.96° N, Danville gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Danville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Riverside, 1.8 miles away, with 2,004 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Danville, PA?

4,193 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 46 (1.1%) from 4,239 in July 2020.

What county is Danville in?

Montour County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Danville?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 17821.

How far is Danville from Harrisburg?

50.3 miles (80.9 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Danville.

What is the nearest larger city to Danville?

Bloomsburg, PA, with 13,286 residents, 8.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.