Port Carbon, Pennsylvania

Port Carbon population, 2020 to 2024

Port Carbon added 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

Port Carbon covers 0.75 square miles of land, for 2,413 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Port Carbon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Port Carbon is in

All of Port Carbon's residents live in Schuylkill County, which had 144,523 residents in 2024. Port Carbon holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Port Carbon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Port Carbon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17965. 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 Port Carbon is

The Census internal point of Port Carbon is at 40.696900, -76.166600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 48.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is St. Clair, PA (2,763 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 36.8 miles away.

Daylight in Port Carbon

At 40.70° N, Port Carbon 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Port Carbon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is St. Clair, 2.1 miles away, with 2,763 people.