Hellertown, Pennsylvania

Hellertown population, 2020 to 2024

Hellertown added 26 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Hellertown is 73% of it.

Hellertown covers 1.31 square miles of land, for 4,691 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Hellertown is denser than the typical town.

What county Hellertown is in

All of Hellertown's residents live in Northampton County, which had 322,989 residents in 2024. Hellertown holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hellertown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hellertown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18055. 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 Hellertown is

The Census internal point of Hellertown is at 40.581300, -75.337900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 84.2 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bethlehem, PA (79,453 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 7.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hellertown

At 40.58° N, Hellertown gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hellertown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Freemansburg, 3.2 miles away, with 2,973 people.