Philipsburg, Pennsylvania

Philipsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Philipsburg lost 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Philipsburg covers 0.87 square miles of land, for 3,144 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Philipsburg is less dense than the typical town.

What county Philipsburg is in

All of Philipsburg's residents live in Centre County, which had 159,805 residents in 2024. Philipsburg holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Philipsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Philipsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 16866. 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 Philipsburg is

The Census internal point of Philipsburg is at 40.892900, -78.216700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 82.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clearfield, PA (5,794 people), 14.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 97.4 miles away.

Daylight in Philipsburg

At 40.89° N, Philipsburg gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Philipsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Osceola Mills, 3.9 miles away, with 1,013 people.