Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Pottsville population, 2020 to 2024

Pottsville added 62 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +29. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 93rd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Pottsville is 1.6 times that size.

Pottsville covers 4.17 square miles of land, for 3,214 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Pottsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pottsville is in

All of Pottsville's residents live in Schuylkill County, which had 144,523 residents in 2024. Pottsville holds 9.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pottsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pottsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 17901. 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 Pottsville is

The Census internal point of Pottsville is at 40.679900, -76.209200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 45.6 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hazleton, PA (30,354 people), 22.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 38.8 miles away.

Daylight in Pottsville

At 40.68° N, Pottsville 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 Pottsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Port Carbon, 2.5 miles away, with 1,810 people.