Palmerton, Pennsylvania

Palmerton population, 2020 to 2024

Palmerton added 39 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 76th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Palmerton is 67% of it.

Palmerton covers 2.49 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,263 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Palmerton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Palmerton is in

All of Palmerton's residents live in Carbon County, which had 65,743 residents in 2024. Palmerton holds 8.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmerton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palmerton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18071. 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 Palmerton is

The Census internal point of Palmerton is at 40.804100, -75.617100. Harrisburg, the capital, is 76.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Northampton, PA (10,587 people), 10.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 16.3 miles away.

Daylight in Palmerton

At 40.80° N, Palmerton 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 Palmerton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Slatington, 3.5 miles away, with 4,331 people.