Pennington Gap, Virginia

Pennington Gap population, 2020 to 2024

Pennington Gap lost 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -1.

Pennington Gap covers 1.67 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 943 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Pennington Gap is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pennington Gap is in

All of Pennington Gap's residents live in Lee County, which had 21,780 residents in 2024. Pennington Gap holds 7.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pennington Gap

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pennington Gap by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 24277. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pennington Gap is

The Census internal point of Pennington Gap is at 36.757700, -83.035300. Richmond, the capital, is 313.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cumberland, KY (1,788 people), 16.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 74.4 miles away.

Daylight in Pennington Gap

At 36.76° N, Pennington Gap gets about 14 h 41 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 39 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pennington Gap

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Big Stone Gap, 16.1 miles away, with 5,087 people.