Moosic, Pennsylvania

Moosic population, 2020 to 2024

Moosic added 71 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 56th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Moosic is 72% of it.

Moosic covers 6.48 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 929 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Moosic is less dense than the typical town.

What county Moosic is in

All of Moosic's residents live in Lackawanna County, which had 216,859 residents in 2024. Moosic holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Moosic

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Moosic by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18507, 18641. 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 Moosic is

The Census internal point of Moosic is at 41.356000, -75.704700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 97.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Old Forge, PA (8,654 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 54.0 miles away.

Daylight in Moosic

At 41.36° N, Moosic gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Moosic

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Old Forge, 2.1 miles away, with 8,654 people.