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Pottsville, PA Micro Area

The Pottsville, PA micro area is one county in Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County. About 145,085 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 1.4% more than in April 2020.

Schuylkill County, centralPottsville
Schuylkill County in Pennsylvania
Population, July 2025
145,085 1.4% more than in April 2020
Type
Micropolitan statistical area
County
Schuylkill County
Land area
779 sq mi (2,017 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Pennsylvania
CBSA code
39060
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The county in the Pottsville, PA micro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Schuylkill CountyCentral145,085

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of 10,000 to 49,999 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Pottsville13,364 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA Micro Area26 mi northwest
  2. Lebanon, PA Metro Area26 mi southwest
  3. Reading, PA Metro Area28 mi southeast
  4. Sunbury, PA Micro Area33 mi northwest
  5. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metro Area39 mi east
  6. Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA Metro Area45 mi southwest
  7. Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA Metro Area57 mi northeast

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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