Population per Square Mile in Alaska, by County

Population per Square Mile for every county in Alaska, ranked. The highest is Anchorage Municipality at 169.3 and the lowest is Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area at 0.0.

Alaska: 1.3 · United States: n/a · median county in Alaska: 0.7

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#	County	Population per Square Mile
1	Anchorage Municipality	169.3
2	Fairbanks North Star Borough	13.0
3	Juneau City and Borough	11.8
4	Matanuska-Susitna Borough	4.6
5	Kenai Peninsula Borough	3.8
6	Sitka City and Borough	2.9
7	Ketchikan Gateway Borough	2.8
8	Skagway Municipality	2.8
9	Bristol Bay Borough	1.9
10	Kodiak Island Borough	1.9
11	Aleutians West Census Area	1.2
12	Petersburg Borough	1.2
13	Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area	1.1
14	Haines Borough	0.9
15	Wrangell City and Borough	0.8
16	Chugach Census Area	0.7
17	Aleutians East Borough	0.5
18	Bethel Census Area	0.5
19	Kusilvak Census Area	0.5
20	Hoonah-Angoon Census Area	0.4
21	Nome Census Area	0.4
22	Dillingham Census Area	0.3
23	Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	0.3
24	Denali Borough	0.2
25	Northwest Arctic Borough	0.2
26	Copper River Census Area	0.1
27	North Slope Borough	0.1
28	Yakutat City and Borough	0.1
29	Lake and Peninsula Borough	0.0
30	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	0.0

People divided by land area. Water is excluded, so lake and coastal counties are not unfairly diluted.

Source: ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, 2024.

Alaska ranks 52nd of 52 states for population per square mile.

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