Juneau City and Borough area

Population and density of Juneau City and Borough

The Census Bureau estimates that 31,609 people lived in Juneau City and Borough on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,437 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #5 of 30 in Alaska. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 32,255, the population has declined by 646 (−2%), compared with +0.5% for Alaska as a whole.

With 2,703 square miles of land, that is 12 people per square mile (4.5 per km²), placing Juneau City and Borough #2,585 nationally for density and #3 in Alaska. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alaska median is 0.73. Put another way, there are about 55 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Juneau City and Borough

Every resident of Juneau City and Borough lives within Juneau city and borough. The city and the county equivalent cover the same territory, 2,703 square miles of land in the 2026 place Gazetteer, so there are no separate towns or unincorporated areas to list.

Metropolitan area

Juneau City and Borough is a central county of the Juneau, AK Micropolitan Statistical Area. Juneau City and Borough is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 2,703 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #55 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #426 by population.

ZIP codes

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Juneau City and Borough, and each lies mostly inside the county.

9980199824

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Juneau City and Borough

Juneau City and Borough shares a land border with 2 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Hoonah-Angoon Census Area (6,560 mi²) and the smallest is Haines Borough (2,339.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Juneau City and Borough forms a block of 11,602 mi² of land, of which it holds 23.3%.

How big is Juneau City and Borough compared with U.S. states?

Juneau City and Borough has more land than 2 of the 50 states. It is about 1.4 times the land area of Delaware (1,948.6 mi²), while Connecticut, the next larger state, has 1.8 times as much land (4,842.5 mi²). Alaska’s county land could hold about 211 areas the size of Juneau City and Borough.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 52 miles (83.7 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Juneau City and Borough?

Juneau City and Borough has more land than 3,031 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Juneau City and Borough at #168 nationally by total area, 23 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 17%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 15.9 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Juneau City and Borough in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.