Downingtown, Pennsylvania

Downingtown population, 2020 to 2024

Downingtown added 446 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +114. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 12th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Downingtown is 1.0 times that size.

Downingtown covers 2.19 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 3,864 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Downingtown is close to the typical town.

What county Downingtown is in

All of Downingtown's residents live in Chester County, which had 560,745 residents in 2024. Downingtown holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Downingtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Downingtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19335. 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 Downingtown is

The Census internal point of Downingtown is at 40.008300, -75.702200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 64.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is West Chester, PA (22,758 people), 6.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 30.1 miles away.

Daylight in Downingtown

At 40.01° N, Downingtown 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 Downingtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is West Chester, 6.1 miles away, with 22,758 people.