Swissvale, Pennsylvania

Swissvale population, 2020 to 2024

Swissvale lost 323 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.8%. In the latest year it moved by -42. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 189th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Swissvale is 99% of it.

Swissvale covers 1.21 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 6,843 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Swissvale is denser than the typical town.

What county Swissvale is in

All of Swissvale's residents live in Allegheny County, which had 1,231,814 residents in 2024. Swissvale holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Swissvale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Swissvale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15218. 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 Swissvale is

The Census internal point of Swissvale is at 40.420300, -79.886000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 158.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilkinsburg, PA (13,800 people), 1.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 4.9 miles away.

Daylight in Swissvale

At 40.42° N, Swissvale gets about 15 h 04 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 17 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Swissvale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Rankin, 0.5 miles away, with 1,910 people.