Pike County area

Population and density of Pike County

The Census Bureau estimates that 62,808 people lived in Pike County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #880 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #41 of 67 in Pennsylvania. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 58,560, the population has grown by 4,248 (+7.3%), compared with +0.4% for Pennsylvania as a whole.

With 544.9 square miles of land, that is 115 people per square mile (45 per km²), placing Pike County #904 nationally for density and #38 in Pennsylvania. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Pennsylvania median is 137. Put another way, there are about 5.6 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 Pike County

Pike County is divided into 13 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 Dingman township, with 13,467 residents (21.4% of the county). The largest by land is Lackawaxen township, at 78.4 mi², or 14.4% of the county’s land. The county seat, Milford township, has 1,606 residents. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Westfall township grew fastest since then (+34.8%).

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

Metropolitan area

Pike County is a central county of the Hemlock Farms, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. Pike County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the micro area has the same 544.9 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #407 of 542 micropolitan areas, and #152 by population. It belongs to the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

19 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Pike County; 14 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

18302183241832518326183281833618337183401837118405184251842618428184351844518451184571845818464

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 Pike County

Pike County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents, including 3 in New Jersey and New York. It has more land than 1 of them. The largest neighbor is Sullivan County (968.1 mi²) and the smallest is Sussex County (518.5 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Pike County forms a block of 4,177.7 mi² of land, of which it holds 13%.

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

Pike County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 1.9 times as much. Pennsylvania’s county land could hold about 82 areas the size of Pike County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 23.3 miles (37.6 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 Pike County?

Pike County has more land than 1,309 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 Pike County at #1,945 nationally by total area, 32 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 3.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 2.7 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 Pike 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.