Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre population, 2020 to 2024

Wilkes-Barre added 384 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.9%. In the latest year it moved by +237. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Wilkes-Barre is 5.3 times that size.

Wilkes-Barre covers 6.85 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 6,520 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Wilkes-Barre is denser than the typical town.

What county Wilkes-Barre is in

All of Wilkes-Barre's residents live in Luzerne County, which had 331,379 residents in 2024. Wilkes-Barre holds 13.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wilkes-Barre

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wilkes-Barre by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 18701, 18702, 18705. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Wilkes-Barre is

The Census internal point of Wilkes-Barre is at 41.246600, -75.875700. Harrisburg, the capital, is 86.0 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Scranton, PA (75,905 people), 15.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 49.6 miles away.

Daylight in Wilkes-Barre

At 41.25° N, Wilkes-Barre gets about 15 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 12 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wilkes-Barre

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Kingston, 1.4 miles away, with 13,476 people.