Hanover, Pennsylvania

Hanover population, 2020 to 2024

Hanover added 275 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +94. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 40th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Hanover is 2.0 times that size.

Hanover covers 3.70 square miles of land, for 4,521 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Hanover is denser than the typical town.

What county Hanover is in

All of Hanover's residents live in York County, which had 471,240 residents in 2024. Hanover holds 3.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hanover

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hanover by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17331. 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 Hanover is

The Census internal point of Hanover is at 39.811800, -76.983600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 31.7 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Westminster, MD (20,662 people), 16.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 40.6 miles away.

Daylight in Hanover

At 39.81° N, Hanover 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 Hanover

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is McSherrystown, 2.0 miles away, with 3,161 people.