Monessen, Pennsylvania

Monessen population, 2020 to 2024

Monessen lost 157 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -24. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 144th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Monessen is 80% of it.

Monessen covers 2.89 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 2,320 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Monessen is less dense than the typical town.

What county Monessen is in

All of Monessen's residents live in Westmoreland County, which had 350,935 residents in 2024. Monessen holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monessen

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Monessen by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 15062. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Monessen is

The Census internal point of Monessen is at 40.152000, -79.883000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 158.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jefferson Hills, PA (12,291 people), 10.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 20.5 miles away.

Daylight in Monessen

At 40.15° N, Monessen gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monessen

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Charleroi, 1.3 miles away, with 4,159 people.