Juniata County area

Population and density of Juniata County

The Census Bureau estimates that 23,403 people lived in Juniata County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,722 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #61 of 67 in Pennsylvania. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 23,500, the population has declined by 97 (−0.4%), compared with +0.4% for Pennsylvania as a whole.

With 391.4 square miles of land, that is 60 people per square mile (23 per km²), placing Juniata County #1,388 nationally for density and #52 in Pennsylvania. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Pennsylvania median is 137. Put another way, there are about 11 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 Juniata County

Juniata County is divided into 17 municipalities and townships. In Pennsylvania, county subdivisions are local governments, and together they cover all of the county’s land and residents.

The most populous is Fayette township, with 3,337 residents (14.3% of the county). The largest by land is Lack township, at 57 mi², or 14.6% of the county’s land. The county seat, Mifflintown borough, has 819 residents. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Walker township grew fastest since then (+0.3%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each subdivision inside Juniata County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Juniata County is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Juniata County; 10 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

170141702117035170451704917056170581705917062170761708217086170941724317853

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Juniata County

Juniata County shares a land border with 6 county equivalents. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Huntingdon County (874.6 mi²) and the smallest is Snyder County (328.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Juniata County forms a block of 3,787.2 mi² of land, of which it holds 10.3%.

How big is Juniata County compared with U.S. states?

Juniata County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Pennsylvania’s county land could hold about 114 areas the size of Juniata County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.8 miles (31.8 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 Juniata County?

Juniata County has more land than 654 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 Juniata County at #2,628 nationally by total area, 60 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.5%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.6 percentage points lower. 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 Juniata County 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.