Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg population, 2020 to 2024

Gettysburg added 1,543 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +21.7%. In the latest year it moved by +40. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 2nd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Gettysburg is 1.0 times that size.

Gettysburg covers 1.66 square miles of land, for 5,209 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Gettysburg is denser than the typical town.

What county Gettysburg is in

All of Gettysburg's residents live in Adams County, which had 107,914 residents in 2024. Gettysburg holds 8.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gettysburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Gettysburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17325. 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 Gettysburg is

The Census internal point of Gettysburg is at 39.830600, -77.234100. Harrisburg, the capital, is 35.2 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hanover, PA (16,728 people), 13.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 49.5 miles away.

Daylight in Gettysburg

At 39.83° N, Gettysburg 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 Gettysburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Bonneauville, 5.4 miles away, with 1,806 people.