Girard, Pennsylvania

Girard population, 2020 to 2024

Girard lost 47 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Girard covers 2.34 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,257 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Girard is less dense than the typical town.

What county Girard is in

All of Girard's residents live in Erie County, which had 267,750 residents in 2024. Girard holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Girard

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Girard by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 16417. 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 Girard is

The Census internal point of Girard is at 42.004100, -80.319200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 215.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Edinboro, PA (5,814 people), 13.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cleveland, OH, 79.0 miles away.

Daylight in Girard

At 42.00° N, Girard gets about 15 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Girard

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Lake City, 1.7 miles away, with 2,866 people.