Alaska Population Trends

People have called Alaska home for at least the last 14,000 years. The data in this app reflects on the period in time only since 1880, when the United States began collecting population data. Census data is collected every 10 years. The data available from 2011 to the present represent the DCCED Certified Population counts for those years, which the State of Alaska recommend as the authoritative population count. A data value of zero for a particular year or decade can mean that no data is available, not that there was no one living there at the time. Occasionally, changes in census tract boundaries also result in what appears to be jumps in population size for a community. To see these changes, examine the layers under the 'Census Population Count' group in the Layer List.