Whitehall Township | |
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Helfrich's Springs Grist Mill, built in 1807 in Whitehall Township, in October 2012 | |
![]() Location of Whitehall Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania | |
Location of Whitehall Township in Pennsylvania | |
Coordinates: 40°40′00″N 75°30′00″W / 40.66667°N 75.50000°W | |
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County | Lehigh |
Government | |
• Mayor | Joseph J. Marx, Jr.[1] (Democratic) |
Area | |
• Township | 12.86 sq mi (33.31 km2) |
• Land | 12.57 sq mi (32.55 km2) |
• Water | 0.29 sq mi (0.76 km2) |
Elevation | 384 ft (117 m) |
Population | |
• Township | 26,738 |
• Estimate (2016)[4] | 27,423 |
• Density | 2,181.80/sq mi (842.43/km2) |
• Metro | 865,310 (US: 68th) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 18052 |
Area code(s) | 610 and 484 |
FIPS code | 42-077-84528 |
Primary airport | Lehigh Valley International Airport |
Major hospital | Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest |
School district | Whitehall-Coplay |
Website | www |
Whitehall Township is a township with home rule status in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. The township's population was 26,738 as of the 2010 census.
Whitehall Township is a suburb of Allentown in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan region, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
The township is 4.4 miles (7.1 km) north of Allentown, 64.1 miles (103.2 km) northwest of Philadelphia, and 93.7 miles (150.8 km) west of New York City.[5]