Kingston, Pennsylvania

Kingston population, 2020 to 2024

Kingston added 141 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +76. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Kingston is 1.6 times that size.

Kingston covers 2.15 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 6,268 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Kingston is denser than the typical town.

What county Kingston is in

All of Kingston's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Kingston holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kingston

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kingston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18704. 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 Kingston is

The Census internal point of Kingston is at 41.264800, -75.886600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 86.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilkes-Barre, PA (44,661 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 51.0 miles away.

Daylight in Kingston

At 41.26° N, Kingston gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kingston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Edwardsville, 1.3 miles away, with 4,977 people.