Forty Fort, Pennsylvania

Forty Fort population, 2020 to 2024

Forty Fort added 45 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +25.

Forty Fort covers 1.31 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 3,268 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Forty Fort is less dense than the typical town.

What county Forty Fort is in

All of Forty Fort's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Forty Fort holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Forty Fort

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Forty Fort by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18704. 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 Forty Fort is

The Census internal point of Forty Fort is at 41.280100, -75.873200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 87.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Swoyersville, PA (5,092 people), 1.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 51.7 miles away.

Daylight in Forty Fort

At 41.28° N, Forty Fort gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Forty Fort

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Swoyersville, 1.3 miles away, with 5,092 people.