Glenolden, Pennsylvania

Glenolden population, 2020 to 2024

Glenolden added 42 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +47. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Glenolden is 87% of it.

Glenolden covers 0.98 square miles of land, for 7,414 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Glenolden is denser than the typical town.

What county Glenolden is in

All of Glenolden's residents live in Delaware County, which had 584,882 residents in 2024. Glenolden holds 1.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Glenolden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Glenolden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19036. 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 Glenolden is

The Census internal point of Glenolden is at 39.899600, -75.292000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 87.8 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Collingdale, PA (8,956 people), 1.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 11.3 miles away.

Daylight in Glenolden

At 39.90° N, Glenolden gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Glenolden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Norwood, 1.0 miles away, with 5,969 people.