Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

Mechanicsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Mechanicsburg added 724 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.7%. In the latest year it moved by +118. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 9th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Mechanicsburg is 1.2 times that size.

Mechanicsburg covers 2.41 square miles of land, for 4,185 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Mechanicsburg is close to the typical town.

What county Mechanicsburg is in

All of Mechanicsburg's residents live in Cumberland County, which had 275,516 residents in 2024. Mechanicsburg holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mechanicsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mechanicsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17055. 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 Mechanicsburg is

The Census internal point of Mechanicsburg is at 40.211400, -77.005900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 7.4 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Harrisburg, PA (50,649 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 66.4 miles away.

Daylight in Mechanicsburg

At 40.21° N, Mechanicsburg gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mechanicsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Shiremanstown, 2.8 miles away, with 1,669 people.