Quakertown, Pennsylvania

Quakertown population, 2020 to 2024

Quakertown lost 65 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +8. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 108th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Quakertown is 1.1 times that size.

Quakertown covers 2.04 square miles of land, for 4,560 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Quakertown is denser than the typical town.

What county Quakertown is in

All of Quakertown's residents live in Bucks County, which had 650,131 residents in 2024. Quakertown holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Quakertown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Quakertown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18951. 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 Quakertown is

The Census internal point of Quakertown is at 40.439700, -75.345800. Harrisburg, the capital, is 81.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Perkasie, PA (9,338 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 12.7 miles away.

Daylight in Quakertown

At 40.44° N, Quakertown gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Quakertown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Richlandtown, 2.6 miles away, with 1,345 people.