Pottstown, Pennsylvania

Pottstown population, 2020 to 2024

Pottstown added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +110. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 86th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Pottstown is 2.8 times that size.

Pottstown covers 4.85 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 4,856 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Pottstown is denser than the typical town.

What county Pottstown is in

All of Pottstown's residents live in Montgomery County, which had 879,190 residents in 2024. Pottstown holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pottstown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pottstown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19464. 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 Pottstown is

The Census internal point of Pottstown is at 40.250900, -75.644800. Harrisburg, the capital, is 65.3 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Reading, PA (96,000 people), 16.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 25.2 miles away.

Daylight in Pottstown

At 40.25° N, Pottstown 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 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pottstown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Boyertown, 5.6 miles away, with 4,324 people.