Pennsylvania · Census place 4275248

Summit Hill, Pennsylvania

Summit Hill is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 3,135 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 308th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,135
#308 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+0.5%
+15 people
Land area
8.7 sq mi
+ 0.41 sq mi water
Density
361 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Summit Hill. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

Summit Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Summit Hill added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

3,12020203,14820213,13820223,13020233,1352024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,121. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Summit Hill covers 8.69 square miles of land and 0.41 of water, for 361 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Summit Hill is less dense than the typical town.

What county Summit Hill is in

All of Summit Hill's residents live in Carbon County, which had 65,743 residents in 2024. Summit Hill holds 4.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Summit Hill

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Summit Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18232, 18250. 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 Summit Hill is

The Census internal point of Summit Hill is at 40.825000, -75.846200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 66.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lansford, PA (4,143 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 25.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.825000, -75.846200
DMS
40°49'30.00"N 75°50'46.32"W
UTM
18N 428645.0E 4519675.2N
Geohash
dr604pfqz
Plus code
87G6R5F3+XG

Daylight in Summit Hill

At 40.83° N, Summit Hill 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 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Summit Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Lansford, 2.1 miles away, with 4,143 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Summit Hill, PA?

3,135 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 15 (0.5%) from 3,120 in July 2020.

What county is Summit Hill in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Summit Hill?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 18232, 18250.

How far is Summit Hill from Harrisburg?

66.9 miles (107.6 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Summit Hill.

What is the nearest larger city to Summit Hill?

Lansford, PA, with 4,143 residents, 2.1 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.