Houston, Pennsylvania

Houston population, 2020 to 2024

Houston lost 21 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Houston covers 0.41 square miles of land, for 2,807 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Houston is less dense than the typical town.

What county Houston is in

All of Houston's residents live in Washington County, which had 210,434 residents in 2024. Houston holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Houston

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Houston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15317, 15342. 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 Houston is

The Census internal point of Houston is at 40.249500, -80.211100. Harrisburg, the capital, is 175.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Canonsburg, PA (9,601 people), 1.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 18.1 miles away.

Daylight in Houston

At 40.25° N, Houston gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Houston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Canonsburg, 1.6 miles away, with 9,601 people.