 Mahanoy City is located at (40.812413, -76.140223), with PA 54 as a main thoroughfare and through road, serving as a main street named Centre Street.To the west it connects to Shenandoah thence to the Susquehanna Valley and to the east reaches through several unincorporated villages then passes through Barnesville as Pine Creek Dr. and then serves Hometown as a main road, intersecting US 309 (N-S) before passing into Tamaqua and Nesquehoning.The borough is situated in the valley of Mahanoy Creek, approximately southeast of Shenandoah and west-northwest of Tamaqua, both of which are reached via Route 54.