Watsontown, Pennsylvania

Watsontown population, 2020 to 2024

Watsontown lost 28 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Watsontown covers 0.71 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 3,107 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Watsontown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Watsontown is in

All of Watsontown's residents live in Northumberland County, which had 90,027 residents in 2024. Watsontown holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Watsontown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Watsontown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17777. 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 Watsontown is

The Census internal point of Watsontown is at 41.085300, -76.864900. Harrisburg, the capital, is 56.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Milton, PA (6,483 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 80.0 miles away.

Daylight in Watsontown

At 41.09° N, Watsontown gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Watsontown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Milton, 5.8 miles away, with 6,483 people.