Malvern, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 125 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Malvern sits at about 550 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 165 m
most residents: 520–590 ft
Lowest
420 ft 125 m
on the northwest side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Average
530 ft 165 m
all land inside borough limits
Malvern spans about 180 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 550 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 420 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Malvern | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (OQN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi southwest of the borough limits | 465 ft142 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,454 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,741 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0362° N, 75.5138° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Brandywine Regional (OQN) 465 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19355
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Malvern550 ft
- Paoli520 ft
- Devon500 ft
- Berwyn470 ft
- Easttown Township440 ft
- Charlestown Township440 ft
- East Goshen Township440 ft
- Tredyffrin Township410 ft
- Frazer400 ft
- East Whiteland Township390 ft
- Chesterbrook190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,730th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Chester County20th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Diamond Rock Hill660 ft
- Mount Misery660 ft
- Mount Joy420 ft
- Hunting Hill410 ft
- Osborne Hill380 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census borough limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.