Pittston, Pennsylvania

Pittston population, 2020 to 2024

Pittston added 166 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +72. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Pittston is 93% of it.

Pittston covers 1.53 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 5,061 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Pittston is denser than the typical town.

What county Pittston is in

All of Pittston's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Pittston holds 2.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pittston

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pittston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 18640. 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 Pittston is

The Census internal point of Pittston is at 41.327900, -75.785700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 93.3 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Old Forge, PA (8,654 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 53.2 miles away.

Daylight in Pittston

At 41.33° N, Pittston gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pittston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is West Pittston, 0.8 miles away, with 4,699 people.