Norristown, Pennsylvania

Norristown population, 2020 to 2024

Norristown added 341 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +223. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Norristown is 4.3 times that size.

Norristown covers 3.52 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 10,249 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Norristown is denser than the typical town.

What county Norristown is in

All of Norristown's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 879,190 residents in 2024. Norristown holds 4.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Norristown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Norristown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19401. 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 Norristown is

The Census internal point of Norristown is at 40.122100, -75.339900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 82.1 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Philadelphia, PA (1,573,916 people), 13.4 miles away.

Daylight in Norristown

At 40.12° N, Norristown 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 Norristown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Bridgeport, 1.3 miles away, with 5,401 people.