Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania
Butztown, a Bethlehem Township village, in December 2012
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Location (in red) within Northampton County
Coordinates: 40°40′00″N 75°17′59″W / 40.66667°N 75.29972°W / 40.66667; -75.29972
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Northampton
Area [1]
• City	14.60 sq mi (37.82 km2)
• Land	14.43 sq mi (37.38 km2)
• Water	0.17 sq mi (0.45 km2)
Elevation	440 ft (130 m)
Population  (2010)
• City	23,730
• Estimate  (2016)[2]	23,952
• Density	1,659.65/sq mi (640.81/km2)
• Metro	865,310 (US: 68th)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes	18020, 18045
Area codes	610 and 484
FIPS code	42-095-06096
Primary airport	Lehigh Valley International Airport
Major hospital	Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest
School district	Bethlehem Area
Website	http://bethlehemtownship.org/

Bethlehem Township is a township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population of Bethlehem Township was 23,730 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of Bethlehem and is part of the Lehigh Valley metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.

Bethlehem Township is located 13.6 miles (21.9 km) northeast of Allentown, 73.2 miles (117.8 km) north of Philadelphia, and 79.5 miles (127.9 km) west of New York City.