Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania

Mount Carmel population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Carmel lost 106 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -13. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 128th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Mount Carmel is 67% of it.

Mount Carmel covers 0.66 square miles of land, for 8,524 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Mount Carmel is denser than the typical town.

What county Mount Carmel is in

All of Mount Carmel's residents live in Northumberland County, which had 90,027 residents in 2024. Mount Carmel holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Carmel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Carmel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17851. 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 Mount Carmel is

The Census internal point of Mount Carmel is at 40.795900, -76.412000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 44.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Shamokin, PA (6,787 people), 7.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 50.9 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Carmel

At 40.80° N, Mount Carmel 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 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Carmel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Kulpmont, 3.1 miles away, with 2,698 people.