Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Elizabethtown population, 2020 to 2024

Elizabethtown added 330 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -25. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Elizabethtown is 1.4 times that size.

Elizabethtown covers 2.65 square miles of land, for 4,526 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Elizabethtown is denser than the typical town.

What county Elizabethtown is in

All of Elizabethtown's residents live in Lancaster County, which had 563,293 residents in 2024. Elizabethtown holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elizabethtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elizabethtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17022. 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 Elizabethtown is

The Census internal point of Elizabethtown is at 40.153300, -76.598700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 16.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is York, PA (45,241 people), 14.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 59.0 miles away.

Daylight in Elizabethtown

At 40.15° N, Elizabethtown 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 Elizabethtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Joy, 5.7 miles away, with 8,364 people.