Forest City, Pennsylvania

Forest City population, 2020 to 2024

Forest City lost 28 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Forest City covers 0.92 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,900 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Forest City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Forest City is in

All of Forest City's residents live in Susquehanna County, which had 38,100 residents in 2024. Forest City holds 4.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forest City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Forest City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18421. 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 Forest City is

The Census internal point of Forest City is at 41.652700, -75.469200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 121.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Carbondale, PA (8,805 people), 5.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 73.2 miles away.

Daylight in Forest City

At 41.65° N, Forest City gets about 15 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forest City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Waymart, 5.7 miles away, with 1,286 people.