Somerset, Pennsylvania

Somerset population, 2020 to 2024

Somerset lost 174 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.9%. In the latest year it moved by -38. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 166th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Somerset is 70% of it.

Somerset covers 2.73 square miles of land, for 2,150 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Somerset is less dense than the typical town.

What county Somerset is in

All of Somerset's residents live in Somerset County, which had 72,134 residents in 2024. Somerset holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Somerset

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Somerset by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15501. 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 Somerset is

The Census internal point of Somerset is at 40.005000, -79.077900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 117.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Johnstown, PA (17,853 people), 23.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 56.1 miles away.

Daylight in Somerset

At 40.01° N, Somerset gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 20 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Somerset

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Berlin, 8.9 miles away, with 1,947 people.