Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

Shippensburg population, 2020 to 2024

Shippensburg added 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +29. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 23rd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Shippensburg is 67% of it.

Shippensburg covers 2.03 square miles of land, for 2,777 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Shippensburg is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Shippensburg spans

Shippensburg crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,638 residents as follows; Cumberland County holds 79.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Shippensburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Shippensburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17257. 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 Shippensburg is

The Census internal point of Shippensburg is at 40.048700, -77.523200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 36.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chambersburg, PA (23,041 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD, 71.0 miles away.

Daylight in Shippensburg

At 40.05° N, Shippensburg gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Shippensburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Newville, 10.5 miles away, with 1,412 people.