Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe population, 2020 to 2024

Jim Thorpe added 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +20.

Jim Thorpe covers 14.60 square miles of land and 0.32 of water, for 311 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Jim Thorpe is less dense than the typical town.

What county Jim Thorpe is in

All of Jim Thorpe's residents live in Carbon County, which had 65,743 residents in 2024. Jim Thorpe holds 6.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jim Thorpe

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Jim Thorpe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18229, 18235. 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 Jim Thorpe is

The Census internal point of Jim Thorpe is at 40.857200, -75.776300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 71.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lehighton, PA (5,262 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 24.0 miles away.

Daylight in Jim Thorpe

At 40.86° N, Jim Thorpe gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jim Thorpe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Nesquehoning, 2.8 miles away, with 3,343 people.