Monaca, Pennsylvania

Monaca population, 2020 to 2024

Monaca lost 143 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -18. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 153rd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Monaca is 65% of it.

Monaca covers 2.03 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 2,693 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Monaca is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monaca is in

All of Monaca's residents live in Beaver County, which had 165,540 residents in 2024. Monaca holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monaca

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monaca by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15061. 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 Monaca is

The Census internal point of Monaca is at 40.683400, -80.273400. Harrisburg, the capital, is 180.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Brighton, PA (5,517 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 23.0 miles away.

Daylight in Monaca

At 40.68° N, Monaca 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 Monaca

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Freedom, 1.0 miles away, with 1,457 people.