Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

Phoenixville population, 2020 to 2024

Phoenixville added 1,701 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.2%. In the latest year it moved by +339. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Phoenixville is 2.4 times that size.

Phoenixville covers 3.51 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 5,779 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Phoenixville is denser than the typical town.

What county Phoenixville is in

All of Phoenixville's residents live in Chester County, which had 560,745 residents in 2024. Phoenixville holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Phoenixville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Phoenixville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19460. 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 Phoenixville is

The Census internal point of Phoenixville is at 40.135200, -75.522700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 72.4 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Norristown, PA (36,075 people), 9.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 22.4 miles away.

Daylight in Phoenixville

At 40.14° N, Phoenixville 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 Phoenixville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Spring City, 3.1 miles away, with 3,925 people.