Oil City, Pennsylvania

Oil City population, 2020 to 2024

Oil City lost 220 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.3%. In the latest year it moved by -7. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 145th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Oil City is 1.1 times that size.

Oil City covers 4.49 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 2,086 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Oil City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oil City is in

All of Oil City's residents live in Venango County, which had 49,476 residents in 2024. Oil City holds 18.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oil City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Oil City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 16301. 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 Oil City is

The Census internal point of Oil City is at 41.428800, -79.707800. Harrisburg, the capital, is 168.1 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Meadville, PA (12,347 people), 27.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 69.7 miles away.

Daylight in Oil City

At 41.43° N, Oil City gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oil City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Sugarcreek, 6.3 miles away, with 4,712 people.