Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Shamokin population, 2020 to 2024

Shamokin lost 142 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.0%. In the latest year it moved by -16. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 137th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Shamokin is 81% of it.

Shamokin covers 0.83 square miles of land, for 8,177 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Shamokin is denser than the typical town.

What county Shamokin is in

All of Shamokin's residents live in Northumberland County, which had 90,027 residents in 2024. Shamokin holds 7.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shamokin

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shamokin by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 17872. 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 Shamokin is

The Census internal point of Shamokin is at 40.788100, -76.555000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 40.1 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sunbury, PA (9,549 people), 13.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 58.0 miles away.

Daylight in Shamokin

At 40.79° N, Shamokin 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 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shamokin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Kulpmont, 4.4 miles away, with 2,698 people.