Pennsylvania · Census place 4238000

Jenkintown, Pennsylvania

Jenkintown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 4,740 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 204th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,740
#204 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+0.5%
+22 people
Land area
0.6 sq mi
Density
8,034 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Jenkintown. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

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Jenkintown population, 2020 to 2024

Jenkintown added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +23.

4,71820204,72520214,71320224,71720234,7402024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,720. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Jenkintown covers 0.59 square miles of land, for 8,034 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Jenkintown is denser than the typical town.

What county Jenkintown is in

All of Jenkintown's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 879,190 residents in 2024. Jenkintown 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 Jenkintown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jenkintown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19046. 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 Jenkintown is

The Census internal point of Jenkintown is at 40.096300, -75.129800. Harrisburg, the capital, is 93.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hatboro, PA (8,341 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 6.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.096300, -75.129800
DMS
40°05'46.68"N 75°07'47.28"W
UTM
18N 488935.9E 4438453.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
87G63VWC+G3

Daylight in Jenkintown

At 40.10° N, Jenkintown gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jenkintown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Rockledge, 2.3 miles away, with 2,641 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Jenkintown, PA?

4,740 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 22 (0.5%) from 4,718 in July 2020.

What county is Jenkintown in?

Montgomery County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Jenkintown?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 19046.

How far is Jenkintown from Harrisburg?

93.3 miles (150.2 km) in a straight line, heading W from Jenkintown.

What is the nearest larger city to Jenkintown?

Hatboro, PA, with 8,341 residents, 5.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.