Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The 2000 Census showed that Philadelphia had a population of 1,517,550 people^<1>. This represents 12.35% of the total population of Pennsylvania, making it the state's most populous community.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated.

Below is a list of similarily sized communities (while rank is based on the 2000 Census, the population shown is estimated for 2008):

Rank in 2000	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
-1-	Philadelphia			1,447,395	4.62% decrease
2	Pittsburgh	W	255 mi [410.4 km]	310,037	7.33% decrease
3	Allentown	N	47 mi [75.6 km]	107,250	0.58% increase
4	Erie	NW	296 mi [476.4 km]	103,817	0.1% increase
5	Reading	NW	48 mi [77.2 km]	80,506	0.86% decrease
6	Scranton	N	104 mi [167.4 km]	72,233	5.47% decrease
7	Bethlehem	N	47 mi [75.6 km]	72,241	1.28% increase

Philadelphia had 661,958 Housing Units^<3> at the time of the 2000 Census.

The 2000 Census shows that Philadelphia has a total area of 142.6 square miles [369.4 km²]^<4>. Of this total, 135.1 square miles [349.9 km²]7.55 square miles [19.54 km²]).

Using the above population and land area values, Philadelphia had a 2000 population density of 11,233 people per square mile [4,337 people/km²], making it the mostly densely populated area in Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia County

The city of Philadelphia is located in Philadelphia County and is the county seat.

The county had a population of 1,513,812 people at the 2000 Census. With it's population of 1,517,550 people, Philadelphia contained 100.2% of the Philadelphia County total.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Philadelphia County.

Population Rings

To help identify the number of people who live in Philadelphia and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Philadelphia. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<5>

US Census QuickFacts

The Census Bureau has created documents containing demographic information called QuickFacts. Although they don't create QuickFacts for all communities, they do have one for Philadelphia. Not only does the QuickFact have details about Philadelphia, it also contains a comparison between Philadelphia and the state of Pennsylvania.

Click here for the Philadelphia QuickFact (QF-4260000).

The following communities are nearby Philadelphia and also have Census QuickFacts:

	Community	Census QuickFact	Direction	Distance	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Camden (NJ)	QF-3410000	E	3 mi [4.83 km]	79,383	0.65% decrease
	Upper Darby	QF-4278784	W	6 mi [9.66 km]
	Cherry Hill (NJ)	QF-3412310	E	7 mi [11.27 km]
	Abington	QF-4200145	N	11 mi [17.7 km]
	Marlboro (NJ)	QF-3443995	E	13 mi [20.92 km]
	Chester	QF-4213208	SW	13 mi [20.92 km]	36,564	0.79% decrease
	Mount Laurel (NJ)	QF-3448990	E	14 mi [22.53 km]
	Willingboro (NJ)	QF-3481470	E	16 mi [25.75 km]

For more about neighboring communities, please visit our Neighborhood Page for Philadelphia.

A Census Quickfact is available for Philadelphia County (QF-34101).

Below are QuickFacts for the counties that border Philadelphia County.

	County	Census QuickFact	Direction	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Montgomery	QF-42091	NW	778,048	3.61% increase
	Bucks	QF-42017	N	621,643	3.71% increase
	Delaware	QF-42045	SW	553,619	0.29% increase
	Burlington (NJ)	QF-34005	E	445,475	4.95% increase
	Camden (NJ)	QF-34007	SE	517,234	1.9% increase
	Gloucester (NJ)	QF-34015	S	287,860	12.3% increase

Miscellaneous Information

The Federal government has assigned identifying codes to each community, county and state. The following FIPS codes apply to Philadelphia:

Philadelphia is located in Census Region #1 (the Northeast Region) and in Division #2 (the Middle Atlantic Division).

For more information about various Federal Codes, please visit our Misc. Page for Philadelphia.

The Commemorative Quarter for Pennsylvania<6>

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Philadelphia. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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