Pennsylvania · Census place 4250088

Minersville, Pennsylvania

Minersville is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 4,426 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 223rd largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,426
#223 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+1.1%
+49 people
Land area
0.7 sq mi
Density
6,706 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Minersville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

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Minersville population, 2020 to 2024

Minersville added 49 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +17.

4,37720204,39020214,39220224,40920234,4262024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,380. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Minersville covers 0.66 square miles of land, for 6,706 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Minersville is denser than the typical town.

What county Minersville is in

All of Minersville's residents live in Schuylkill County, which had 144,523 residents in 2024. Minersville holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Minersville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Minersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17954. 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 Minersville is

The Census internal point of Minersville is at 40.690800, -76.259400. Harrisburg, the capital, is 44.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pottsville, PA (13,404 people), 2.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 41.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.690800, -76.259400
DMS
40°41'26.88"N 76°15'33.84"W
UTM
18N 393587.8E 4505196.4N
Geohash
dr1z2xt95
Plus code
87G5MPRR+86

Daylight in Minersville

At 40.69° N, Minersville gets about 15 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 15 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Minersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Pottsville, 2.7 miles away, with 13,404 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Minersville, PA?

4,426 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 49 (1.1%) from 4,377 in July 2020.

What county is Minersville in?

Schuylkill County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Minersville?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 17954.

How far is Minersville from Harrisburg?

44.1 miles (71.0 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Minersville.

What is the nearest larger city to Minersville?

Pottsville, PA, with 13,404 residents, 2.7 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.