Schoenersville is a suburban village split between Hanover Township in Lehigh County and Hanover Township in Northampton County,

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. It is pronounced "SHOO-nerz-vil" and is part of the

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metropolitan area, which has a population of 861,899 and is the 68th-most populous

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in the U.S. as of the 2020 census. Schoenersville Road, which runs from the northwest to the southeast, serves as the county line, coming up from

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and meeting northeast to southwest with Airport Road, also known as Route 987, in the village. Beyond there, it becomes Weaversville Road. Schoenersville is split between the

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ZIP Code of 18109 and the

ZIP Code of 18017.

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is located just southwest of the village. From the early 1990s through July 2004, the Airport Authority bought up and cleared a number of the village's properties in order to comply with an

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mandate for a runway protective zone.

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Unincorporated communities in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Northampton County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania {{NorthamptonCountyPA-geo-stub