Pennsylvania · Census place 4219696

Dover, Pennsylvania

Dover is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 1,965 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 433rd largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,965
#433 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+0.6%
+12 people
Land area
0.5 sq mi
Density
3,639 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Dover. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

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Dover population, 2020 to 2024

Dover added 12 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,955. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Dover covers 0.54 square miles of land, for 3,639 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Dover is close to the typical town.

What county Dover is in

All of Dover's residents live in York County, which had 471,240 residents in 2024. Dover holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dover

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dover by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17315. 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 Dover is

The Census internal point of Dover is at 40.003300, -76.848400. Harrisburg, the capital, is 18.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West York, PA (5,127 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 50.2 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.003300, -76.848400
DMS
40°00'11.88"N 76°50'54.24"W
UTM
18N 342223.9E 4429759.8N
Geohash
dr17e62sn
Plus code
87G52532+8J

Daylight in Dover

At 40.00° N, Dover gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dover

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is West York, 5.8 miles away, with 5,127 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Dover, PA?

1,965 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 12 (0.6%) from 1,953 in July 2020.

What county is Dover in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Dover?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 17315.

How far is Dover from Harrisburg?

18.1 miles (29.1 km) in a straight line, heading N from Dover.

What is the nearest larger city to Dover?

West York, PA, with 5,127 residents, 5.8 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)

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