Nanticoke, Pennsylvania

Nanticoke population, 2020 to 2024

Nanticoke added 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +63. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 61st; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Nanticoke is 1.3 times that size.

Nanticoke covers 3.46 square miles of land and 0.10 of water, for 3,101 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Nanticoke is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nanticoke is in

All of Nanticoke's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Nanticoke holds 3.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nanticoke

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nanticoke by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 18634. 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 Nanticoke is

The Census internal point of Nanticoke is at 41.200500, -75.999700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 79.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilkes-Barre, PA (44,661 people), 7.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 50.0 miles away.

Daylight in Nanticoke

At 41.20° N, Nanticoke gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nanticoke

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Sugar Notch, 3.6 miles away, with 1,009 people.