Exeter, Pennsylvania

Exeter population, 2020 to 2024

Exeter added 84 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +39. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 43rd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Exeter is 67% of it.

Exeter covers 4.62 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 1,210 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Exeter is less dense than the typical town.

What county Exeter is in

All of Exeter's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Exeter holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Exeter

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Exeter by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18643. 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 Exeter is

The Census internal point of Exeter is at 41.333200, -75.821100. Harrisburg, the capital, is 92.5 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pittston, PA (7,743 people), 1.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 54.1 miles away.

Daylight in Exeter

At 41.33° N, Exeter gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Exeter

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is West Pittston, 1.1 miles away, with 4,699 people.