Pennsylvania · Census place 4262792
Prospect Park, Pennsylvania
Prospect Park is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 6,452 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 136th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 6,452
- #136 of 597 in Pennsylvania
- Change since 2020
- +0.5%
- +33 people
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 8,838 / sq mi
- State median 3,911
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Prospect Park population, 2020 to 2024
Prospect Park added 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +41. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Prospect Park is 77% of it.
Prospect Park covers 0.73 square miles of land, for 8,838 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Prospect Park is denser than the typical town.
What county Prospect Park is in
All of Prospect Park's residents live in Delaware County, which had 584,882 residents in 2024. Prospect Park holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Prospect Park
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Prospect Park by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 19076. 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 Prospect Park is
The Census internal point of Prospect Park is at 39.886100, -75.307400. Harrisburg, the capital, is 87.3 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ridley Park, PA (7,310 people), 1.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 12.6 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 39.886100, -75.307400
- DMS
- 39°53'9.96"N 75°18'26.64"W
- UTM
- 18N 473716.9E 4415160.8N
- Geohash
- dr46ym4c6
- Plus code
- 87F6VMPV+C2
Daylight in Prospect Park
At 39.89° N, Prospect Park gets about 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Prospect Park
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Norwood, 0.6 miles away, with 5,969 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Prospect Park, PA?
6,452 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 33 (0.5%) from 6,419 in July 2020.
What county is Prospect Park in?
Delaware County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Prospect Park?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 19076.
How far is Prospect Park from Harrisburg?
87.3 miles (140.6 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Prospect Park.
What is the nearest larger city to Prospect Park?
Ridley Park, PA, with 7,310 residents, 1.1 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.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.