Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

Wilkinsburg population, 2020 to 2024

Wilkinsburg lost 527 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.7%. In the latest year it moved by -69. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 183rd; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Wilkinsburg is 1.6 times that size.

Wilkinsburg covers 2.25 square miles of land, for 6,133 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Wilkinsburg is denser than the typical town.

What county Wilkinsburg is in

All of Wilkinsburg's residents live in Allegheny County, which had 1,231,814 residents in 2024. Wilkinsburg holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wilkinsburg

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wilkinsburg by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 15221. 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 Wilkinsburg is

The Census internal point of Wilkinsburg is at 40.444200, -79.873300. Harrisburg, the capital, is 157.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pittsburgh, PA (307,668 people), 5.4 miles away.

Daylight in Wilkinsburg

At 40.44° N, Wilkinsburg 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 Wilkinsburg

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Edgewood, 1.1 miles away, with 3,032 people.