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Pennsylvania Counties

Complete list of all 67 counties in Pennsylvania with population, area, median income, and county seats — plus a free printable blank map.

Counties
67
Population
13,018,637
Area
44,743 sq mi
Capital
Harrisburg
Time Zone
Eastern (ET)
Labeled map of Pennsylvania counties

Labeled outline map of Pennsylvania counties. Download a printable version in SVG, PNG, or PDF.

All 67 Pennsylvania counties

County County Seat Population Area Median Income Cities
Philadelphia1,580,199134 mi²$63,2861
Allegheny1,218,970730 mi²$83,46160
Montgomery842,950483 mi²$119,34774
Bucks634,655604 mi²$118,60360
Delaware582,532184 mi²$101,22043
Chester579,927751 mi²$132,30854
Lancaster558,164944 mi²$87,30861
York477,103904 mi²$85,74838
Berks438,216857 mi²$82,13844
Lehigh386,389345 mi²$84,60025
Westmoreland362,4271,028 mi²$76,01580
Luzerne326,082890 mi²$67,29240
Northampton310,527370 mi²$90,87619
Dauphin285,045525 mi²$78,40417
Cumberland274,130545 mi²$89,69016

How many counties does Pennsylvania have?

Pennsylvania has 67 counties covering 44,743 square miles and roughly 13,018,637 residents. The state was admitted to the Union in 1787 as the 2nd state, and the current county boundaries reflect more than a century of administrative subdivision.

The largest county by land area is Lycoming County at 1,229 square miles, home to about 119,460 residents. The most populous is Philadelphia County with approximately 1,580,199 residents — a density of about 11,793 people per square mile.

At the other end of the scale, Cameron County has only about 4,388 residents.

Pennsylvania’s capital is Harrisburg, while the largest city is Philadelphia — a common pattern in the United States, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.

Related resources

Download a printable outline of Pennsylvania’s county boundaries from our blank map of Pennsylvania page — available in SVG, PNG, and PDF.

Use the What County Am I In? tool to detect which Pennsylvania county a GPS location or address falls in, or the Address to County Lookup for batch input.

For demographic radius analysis, the Find ZIP Codes in Radius and Population Within Radius tools let you draw a circle around any Pennsylvania address and see every ZIP code and the total population inside.

Two SimpleMapLab studies cover Pennsylvania specifically: the 100-mile radius around Harrisburg measures how much of the state lives within 100 miles of its capitol, and the loneliest town in Pennsylvania ranks the state’s most isolated inhabited place. The county-counts blog post puts Pennsylvania’s 67 counties in national context.

Frequently asked questions

Pennsylvania has 67 counties. The state was admitted to the Union in 1787 as the 2nd state. County boundaries have shifted over time as the population spread and new administrative units were carved from existing ones.
Lycoming County is the largest by land area at 1,229 square miles, with about 119,460 residents.
Philadelphia County is the most populous, with approximately 1,580,199 residents over 134 square miles.
Cameron County has the smallest population at about 4,388 residents.
Harrisburg is the state capital. The largest city is Philadelphia — a common pattern in the US, where many states placed their capitals in smaller, more central towns rather than their largest commercial hubs.
Population, area, and demographic figures are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data (via the SimpleMaps dataset) and the US Census Gazetteer. County boundaries used to render the map are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line shapefiles. The data is public domain.
Data sources

Population and demographics are aggregated from ZIP-code-level US Census data via the SimpleMaps dataset. Countiesboundaries are from the US Atlas TopoJSON build of the Census Bureau’s TIGER/Line shapefiles. Land area is from the Census Gazetteer. State counts follow the US Census Bureau’s definition of counties and county-equivalents (50 states + DC = 3,143). All sources are public domain.

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