Geographic-scope notice: Johnston is not a separately-incorporated place in the U.S. Census Bureau's Place geography – it is either a neighborhood within a larger municipality (in Providence County) or a town-class subdivision in a state where the Census reports demographics at the town rather than place level. To avoid presenting county-level aggregates as city-level data, this page does not show synthetic Census or health figures for Johnston. For the surrounding county aggregates, see the Rhode Island state directory.
Area profile (no Census Place)
JohnstonRI
Johnston, RI (in Providence County) is not a Census Place. Areazine keeps this area page for alerts and navigation, without a place-level population or demographic snapshot.
Providence County, Rhode Island. Johnston has no Census Place boundary in the ACS geography Areazine uses, so this page does not invent a population or income figure for the named area. Use the state directory for surrounding county aggregates and the alerts below when the area appears in a federal feed.
Data updated 2026-09-04
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The quick read
Reading Johnston, RI beyond the headline numbers
Johnston sits inside Providence County, Rhode Island, at roughly 41.82°N, -71.51°W. The Census Bureau does not publish a Place-level population for Johnston, so Areazine does not invent one; county aggregates live on the Rhode Island state directory.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Johnston from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
What alerts and safety updates affect Johnston?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Johnston right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet RI-JOHNSTON-RI · Johnston
Johnston: 2 tagged alerts; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 2 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ San Jose
Tagged alert mix: Johnston
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Weather Alerts
Weather Alerts
2
What this shows 2 tagged notices on record for Johnston.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: San Jose, CA (2 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Johnston; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Rhode Island state hubs · Methodology
Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (2 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
Read with this city profile
Nearby Cities 8
Using Johnston's profile
Use this page for area alerts and navigation, not as a Census Place demographic report for Johnston.
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Johnston is not a Census Place in ACS geography. Areazine does not invent a place-level population or income figure here; county aggregates and peer Places live on the state and cities directories.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Providence County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. Johnston is not a Census Place; this page does not invent place-level population or demographics. County aggregates and peer Places are linked from the state and cities directories. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.