Juniata County, Pennsylvania

Juniata County population, land area and income

Juniata County had 23,395 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 391.4 square miles of land. It ranks 61st of 67 in Pennsylvania by population and 57th by land area. That works out to 59.8 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and above the national county median.

The median county-equivalent in Pennsylvania has 82,953 residents, so Juniata County has 28% of the typical county's population.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $59,755 is below the national county median among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Juniata County's population changed since 2020

Juniata County lost 88 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 0.4%. That ranks 32nd of 67 in Pennsylvania for growth. The median Pennsylvania county changed by -0.5%, and the state as a whole by +0.6%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Juniata County recorded 1,226 births and 1,364 deaths, a natural change of -138. Net international migration added +228 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -196. The largest single component was international migration, which added 228 people.

Where Juniata County is

The Census internal point of Juniata County is at 40.530700, -77.400400. It sits in UTM zone 18N. The map shades Pennsylvania's 67 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Juniata County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Juniata County

No incorporated place of 1,000 or more people has residents in Juniata County. Its 23,395 residents live in smaller towns, census-designated places, or unincorporated land, which the subcounty estimates do not list at this size.

Counties bordering Juniata County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 7 neighbors for Juniata County. The most populous is Dauphin County, PA, with 293,029 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Dauphin County

  293,029 people

  33 mi ESE

• Franklin County

  159,285 people

  45 mi SSW

• Northumberland County

  90,027 people

  42 mi ENE

• Perry County

  46,816 people

  12 mi SE

• Mifflin County

  45,935 people

  14 mi WNW

• Huntingdon County

  43,359 people

  31 mi WSW

• Snyder County

  39,627 people

  23 mi NE

Distance to Harrisburg and the nearest big city

Harrisburg is 32.8 miles SE of Juniata County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Baltimore, MD (population 568,271), 94.8 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Carlisle, PA (population 22,517), 25.1 miles away.

Juniata County FIPS code

The FIPS code of Juniata County is 42067: state code 42 for Pennsylvania plus county code 067. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $59,755.