Wyoming County area

Population and density of Wyoming County

The Census Bureau estimates that 25,790 people lived in Wyoming County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,641 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #60 of 67 in Pennsylvania. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 26,072, the population has declined by 282 (−1.1%), compared with +0.4% for Pennsylvania as a whole.

With 397.3 square miles of land, that is 65 people per square mile (25 per km²), placing Wyoming County #1,323 nationally for density and #50 in Pennsylvania. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Pennsylvania median is 137. Put another way, there are about 9.9 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 Wyoming County

Wyoming County is divided into 23 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 Tunkhannock township, with 3,962 residents (15.4% of the county). The largest by land is Forkston township, at 70.2 mi², or 17.7% of the county’s land. Among those with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Northmoreland township grew fastest since then (+0.4%).

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

Metropolitan area

Wyoming County is an outlying county of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its 3 county equivalents have 574,418 residents on 1,746 square miles of land; Wyoming County accounts for 22.8% of the land and 4.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #181 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #104 by population.

ZIP codes

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Wyoming County; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

184141841918446186121861418615186181862318625186291863018636186571884418846

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 Wyoming County

Wyoming County shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. Each of them has more land than Wyoming County. The largest neighbor is Bradford County (1,147.4 mi²) and the smallest is Sullivan County (449.9 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Wyoming County forms a block of 4,166.8 mi² of land, of which it holds 9.5%.

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

Wyoming 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 113 areas the size of Wyoming County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.9 miles (32.1 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 Wyoming County?

Wyoming County has more land than 683 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 Wyoming County at #2,576 nationally by total area, 37 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 1.9%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.7 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 Wyoming 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.