Pennsylvania · Census place 4219784

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Doylestown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 8,382 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 96th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,382
#96 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+1.0%
+84 people
Land area
2.2 sq mi
Density
3,881 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Doylestown. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Doylestown population, 2020 to 2024

Doylestown added 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +23. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Doylestown is 1.0 times that size.

8,29820208,29720218,36220228,35920238,3822024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,306. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Doylestown covers 2.16 square miles of land, for 3,881 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Doylestown is close to the typical town.

What county Doylestown is in

All of Doylestown's residents live in Bucks County, which had 650,131 residents in 2024. Doylestown holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Doylestown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Doylestown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18901. 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 Doylestown is

The Census internal point of Doylestown is at 40.314200, -75.127700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 92.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lansdale, PA (19,154 people), 9.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 21.1 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.314200, -75.127700
DMS
40°18'51.12"N 75°07'39.72"W
UTM
18N 489149.7E 4462639.1N
Geohash
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Plus code
87G68V7C+MW

Daylight in Doylestown

At 40.31° N, Doylestown gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Doylestown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is New Britain, 2.8 miles away, with 2,814 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Doylestown, PA?

8,382 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 84 (1.0%) from 8,298 in July 2020.

What county is Doylestown in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Doylestown?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 18901.

How far is Doylestown from Harrisburg?

92.6 miles (149.1 km) in a straight line, heading W from Doylestown.

What is the nearest larger city to Doylestown?

Lansdale, PA, with 19,154 residents, 9.5 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.