The Administrative District of Szczytno has 69,3 thousands of residents, which constitutes 5% of  dwellers of Warmian-Masurian Province. City dwellers comprise 40,7% of the population and village dwellers 59,3%. The average density of population is 37 people per 1 km2.
In the particular communes the rate of population density looks as follows: in Communes Dźwierzuty, Rozogi and Szczytno – the range of 21 - 30 people per 1km2, and in Communes Jedwabno, Pasym, Świętajno and Wielbark – the range of 11 - 20 people per 1km2. From the total number of residents able to work in our District, there are 43 669 economically active people. About 7 800 people do not have a job. There is an ethnic differentiation among the residents of the District. The population consists of native people and immigrants from the east (repatriates), from the Polish prewar lands and from the borderland (ethnic region Kurpie). There are also many skilled workmen form the whole Poland, who settled here during the centuries because of the historical orders to work in various public sectors like industry, education and administration. In spite of the ethnic differentiation of the local population, people are integrated and there are no customary differences.

Weather and natural conditions, relief, geomorphological conditions, the presence of water resources of surface and groundwater and local minerals settle about the land management opportunities in the leading economic sectors: agriculture, tourism and industries based on raw materials such as wood, minerals (sand, gravel, peat), whilst maintaining the biological balance with special care for the environmental protection
Protected areas take up about 70% of the area of the district. Nature reserves that create them are Galwica, Kulka, Sasek, Malga and in the north-western part Masurian Landscape Park. In the protected area we can find rare plants including: Siberian iris, Norwegian potentilla and numerous monuments of nature in the number of 120 registered objects. The best known are junipers in the area of Lipowiec and oaks in the Forest Inspectorate Jedwabno.
Among the species of protected animals in the county occurs: the lynx, beaver, erne, black stork and European roller (the only specimen in the Warmian-Masurian region).
Water under the surface is protected within the framework of protection zones set up around the lakes and rivers, also protected is underground drinking water reservoir “Omulew” located within the communes Jedwabno, Wielbark and the southern part of the commune Szczytno where the construction is limited.
Within the district there are adverse weather conditions. The average temperature is 6.6 Celsius degrees (17.7o in July and -3.5o in January), which makes our district one of the coldest places in Poland. The total number of days with temperature above 0ºC (with frosts) is 140 days, which makes growing season relatively short. The average annual precipitation reaches 600 mm.
The lay of the land divides the District into two parts: the northern part of diversified relief (pleated area) and the south which is flat - formed from the glacier flowing sand.
The area is characterized by a large forestation (approximately 50%).
Postglacial land in the northern part has the majority of soils of III and IV class, southern part has weaker soils (class V and VI).