Fairchance, Pennsylvania

Fairchance population, 2020 to 2024

Fairchance lost 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -11.

Fairchance covers 1.19 square miles of land, for 1,526 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Fairchance is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fairchance is in

All of Fairchance's residents live in Fayette County, which had 123,941 residents in 2024. Fairchance holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairchance

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fairchance by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15436. 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 Fairchance is

The Census internal point of Fairchance is at 39.825100, -79.754000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 154.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Uniontown, PA (9,554 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 44.1 miles away.

Daylight in Fairchance

At 39.83° N, Fairchance gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 21 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fairchance

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Uniontown, 5.4 miles away, with 9,554 people.