Pennsylvania · Census place 4272736

Speers, Pennsylvania

Speers is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 1,061 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 588th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,061
#588 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
-1.8%
-19 people
Land area
1.0 sq mi
+ 0.12 sq mi water
Density
1,117 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Speers. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Speers population, 2020 to 2024

Speers lost 19 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.8%. In the latest year it moved by -6.

1,08020201,07520211,07120221,06720231,0612024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,081. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Speers covers 0.95 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,117 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Speers is less dense than the typical town.

What county Speers is in

All of Speers's residents live in Washington County, which had 210,434 residents in 2024. Speers holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Speers

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Speers by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15012, 15022. 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 Speers is

The Census internal point of Speers is at 40.122400, -79.880600. Harrisburg, the capital, is 158.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Belle Vernon, PA (1,829 people), 1.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 22.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.122400, -79.880600
DMS
40°07'20.64"N 79°52'50.16"W
UTM
17N 595381.9E 4441943.0N
Geohash
dpphq209z
Plus code
87G244C9+XQ

Daylight in Speers

At 40.12° N, Speers gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Speers

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is North Belle Vernon, 1.1 miles away, with 1,829 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Speers, PA?

1,061 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 19 (1.8%) from 1,080 in July 2020.

What county is Speers in?

Washington County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Speers?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 15012, 15022.

How far is Speers from Harrisburg?

158.5 miles (255.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Speers.

What is the nearest larger city to Speers?

North Belle Vernon, PA, with 1,829 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.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.