Lehighton, Pennsylvania

Lehighton population, 2020 to 2024

Lehighton added 13 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +4. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 97th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Lehighton is 63% of it.

Lehighton covers 1.62 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 3,248 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Lehighton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lehighton is in

All of Lehighton's residents live in Carbon County, which had 65,743 residents in 2024. Lehighton holds 8.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lehighton

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

The Census internal point of Lehighton is at 40.827700, -75.716500. Harrisburg, the capital, is 72.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palmerton, PA (5,634 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Lehighton

At 40.83° N, Lehighton gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 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 Lehighton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Jim Thorpe, 3.7 miles away, with 4,543 people.