Pennsylvania · Census place 4277184

Tower City, Pennsylvania

Tower City is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania with an estimated 1,436 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 512th largest of 597 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,436
#512 of 597 in Pennsylvania
Change since 2020
+1.1%
+15 people
Land area
0.3 sq mi
Density
4,488 / sq mi
State median 3,911
Orange pin: Tower City. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Harrisburg.

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Tower City population, 2020 to 2024

Tower City added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,422. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Tower City covers 0.32 square miles of land, for 4,488 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Tower City is denser than the typical town.

What county Tower City is in

All of Tower City's residents live in Schuylkill County, which had 144,523 residents in 2024. Tower City holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tower City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tower City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17980. 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 Tower City is

The Census internal point of Tower City is at 40.588400, -76.553100. Harrisburg, the capital, is 28.4 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lykens, PA (1,874 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 56.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
40.588400, -76.553100
DMS
40°35'18.24"N 76°33'11.16"W
UTM
18N 368570.2E 4494226.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
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Daylight in Tower City

At 40.59° N, Tower City gets about 15 h 05 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 16 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tower City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Williamstown, 3.4 miles away, with 1,301 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Tower City, PA?

1,436 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 15 (1.1%) from 1,421 in July 2020.

What county is Tower City in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Tower City?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 17980.

How far is Tower City from Harrisburg?

28.4 miles (45.7 km) in a straight line, heading SW from Tower City.

What is the nearest larger city to Tower City?

Lykens, PA, with 1,874 residents, 7.8 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.