Lewistown, Pennsylvania

Lewistown population, 2020 to 2024

Lewistown lost 170 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -27. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Lewistown is 1.0 times that size.

Lewistown covers 2.03 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 4,135 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Lewistown is close to the typical town.

What county Lewistown is in

All of Lewistown's residents live in Mifflin County, which had 45,935 residents in 2024. Lewistown holds 18.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lewistown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lewistown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17044. 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 Lewistown is

The Census internal point of Lewistown is at 40.597200, -77.571300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 42.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is State College, PA (41,228 people), 20.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 103.1 miles away.

Daylight in Lewistown

At 40.60° N, Lewistown gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lewistown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Burnham, 2.6 miles away, with 1,966 people.