Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton population, 2020 to 2024

Easton added 2,345 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.3%. In the latest year it moved by +64. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Easton is 3.6 times that size.

Easton covers 4.26 square miles of land and 0.60 of water, for 7,144 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Easton is denser than the typical town.

What county Easton is in

All of Easton's residents live in Northampton County, which had 322,989 residents in 2024. Easton holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Easton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Easton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 18042. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Easton is

The Census internal point of Easton is at 40.686000, -75.218500. Harrisburg, the capital, is 92.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bethlehem, PA (79,453 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 15.0 miles away.

Daylight in Easton

At 40.69° N, Easton gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Easton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is West Easton, 1.1 miles away, with 1,246 people.