West Pittston, Pennsylvania

West Pittston population, 2020 to 2024

West Pittston added 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.2%. In the latest year it moved by +27.

West Pittston covers 0.82 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 5,730 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so West Pittston is denser than the typical town.

What county West Pittston is in

All of West Pittston's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. West Pittston holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in West Pittston

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps West Pittston by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 18643. 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 West Pittston is

The Census internal point of West Pittston is at 41.329600, -75.800000. Harrisburg, the capital, is 92.9 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pittston, PA (7,743 people), 0.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 53.6 miles away.

Daylight in West Pittston

At 41.33° N, West Pittston gets about 15 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near West Pittston

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Pittston, 0.8 miles away, with 7,743 people.