East Petersburg, Pennsylvania

East Petersburg population, 2020 to 2024

East Petersburg added 56 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +41.

East Petersburg covers 1.21 square miles of land, for 3,822 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so East Petersburg is close to the typical town.

What county East Petersburg is in

All of East Petersburg's residents live in Lancaster County, which had 563,293 residents in 2024. East Petersburg holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in East Petersburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps East Petersburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17520. 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 East Petersburg is

The Census internal point of East Petersburg is at 40.103400, -76.349700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 30.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lititz, PA (9,733 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 57.0 miles away.

Daylight in East Petersburg

At 40.10° N, East Petersburg gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near East Petersburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Lititz, 4.2 miles away, with 9,733 people.