Barangay San Juan stands as one of he barangays in the municipality of Anao when Anao became a town on March 16, 1870, which was formerly a sitio of Paniqui,Tarlac. Barangay San Juan is bounded by barangays Poblacion, and Rizal on the Est, Barangay Rizal on the North, a part of Barangay Hernando on the West and portion of Barangay Sto. Domingo. It is surrounded with full grown ylang-ylang trees that adds to he greenery of the place.

The agricultural land is 40,185 sq. m., residential is 717,128 sq. m. thus a total land area of 757,303 sq. m.

Old folks say that Barangay San Juan was abundantly planted with different plants and trees. Among which are banana trees which were of various varieties suh as "aritundal, dippig, tumoc, lacatan, granate balayan and san juan." They preferred San Juan to be the name of barangays since variety of banana called "san juan" was the most abundant. Most of the residents of this barangay are engaged in farming. They produce palay, sugar cane and corn. They also have plantations like mango, bananas and many fruit bearing trees while vegetables of different varieties are abundant in the area. Some farmers have their own fish ponds or "bunwan".

Barangay San Juan then one of the pilot barangays granted with livelihood project particularly piggery, sponsored by the Nutrition Center of the Philippines wayback 1983. It started wih three (3) sows with pigpen and this project has pfoved beneficial as it augments the family income of some family-recipients of the piglet dispersal. Other livelihood pojects such as goat and poultry aising, crocheting, food processing/preserving have added income for the family. As per records and survey, Barangay San Juan has the most number of professionals, besides most of them are all successul in thier profession. Others are men of proicient skills such as dressmakers, capenters, businessmen and storeowners.

The Botika ng Barangay managed by barangay health workers, serves for he aster delivery/pocurement of medicine or patient or for first aid application. The farm-to-market roads were already concreted except a porion o sitio Pugui-it aound 800 meters still rough road which he local government is trying to accomplish the soonest.

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