St. John Island

How This FIPS Code Works

Adjacent Counties (1)

Counties that share a border with St. John Island. Useful for regional analysis — these are the geographies you'd typically include when studying labor markets, commuting zones, or environmental spillovers around FIPS 78020.

Federal Datasets Using Code 78020

FIPS code 78020 appears as the county identifier in the following federal datasets. Analysts joining data across these sources use this code as the common geographic key.

Using FIPS Code 78020 in Code

Common patterns for querying federal datasets by this county's FIPS code. The leading zeros are significant — always treat FIPS codes as strings, not integers.

import requests

url = "https://api.census.gov/data/2022/acs/acs5"
params = {
    "get":  "NAME,B19013_001E,B01003_001E",
    "for":  "county:020",
    "in":   "state:78",
    "key":  "YOUR_CENSUS_API_KEY",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
data = r.json()  # [[header...], [St. John Island, United States Virgin Islands, income, pop, ...]

-- 5-digit combined FIPS (state + county)
SELECT * FROM your_table WHERE county_fips = '78020';

-- Some datasets store state and county separately
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE state_fips = '78'
  AND county_fips = '020';

-- ⚠ Never cast to integer — leading zeros are lost:
-- county_fips = 78020 is WRONG for this county

library(tidycensus)

get_acs(
  geography = "county",
  variables = c(income = "B19013_001E", pop = "B01003_001E"),
  state     = "78",
  county    = "020",
  year      = 2022
)

ZIP Codes in St. John Island

ZIP codes do not align perfectly with county boundaries — a single ZIP code can span multiple counties, and a county can contain parts of many ZIP codes. The ratios below (from the Census 2020 ZCTA relationship file) show the land area share of each ZCTA that falls within St. John Island. Why FIPS ≠ ZIP →