Pennsylvania · Census place 4261328

Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania

Pleasant Hills is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 8,318 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 99th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,318
#99 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
-2.0%
-172 people
Land area
2.8 sq mi
Density
2,992 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Pleasant Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Pleasant Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasant Hills lost 172 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 135th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Pleasant Hills is 99% of it.

8,49020208,40320218,40320228,35620238,3182024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,504. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Pleasant Hills covers 2.78 square miles of land, for 2,992 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Pleasant Hills is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pleasant Hills is in

All of Pleasant Hills's residents live in Allegheny County, which had 1,231,814 residents in 2024. Pleasant Hills holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasant Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pleasant Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15236. 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 Pleasant Hills is

The Census internal point of Pleasant Hills is at 40.329800, -79.959600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 162.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jefferson Hills, PA (12,291 people), 2.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 7.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.329800, -79.959600
DMS
40°19'47.28"N 79°57'34.56"W
UTM
17N 588380.3E 4464882.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
87G282HR+W5

Daylight in Pleasant Hills

At 40.33° N, Pleasant Hills gets about 15 h 03 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 18 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pleasant Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Jefferson Hills, 2.4 miles away, with 12,291 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Pleasant Hills, PA?

8,318 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 172 (2.0%) from 8,490 in July 2020.

What county is Pleasant Hills in?

Allegheny County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Pleasant Hills?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 15236.

How far is Pleasant Hills from Harrisburg?

162.1 miles (260.9 km) in a straight line, heading E from Pleasant Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to Pleasant Hills?

Jefferson Hills, PA, with 12,291 residents, 2.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.