Alaska

Population Density
People per square mile, 1990:	0.96
People per square mile, 2000:	1.10

Year	Population		Year	Population		Year	Population
1790	0		1880	33,426		1970	302,583
1800	0		1890	32,052		1980	401,851
1810	0		1900	63,592		1990	550,043
1820	0		1910	64,356		2000	626,932
1830	0		1920	55,036		2010	694,109
1840	0		1930	59,278		2020	774,421
1850	0		1940	72,524		2030	867,674
1860	0		1950	128,643
1870	0		1960	226,167

Population By County

	Census 2000 Population	Change from 1990	Percent Change
ALASKA	626,932	76,889	14.0
Aleutians East Borough	2,697	233	9.5
Aleutians West Census Area	5,465	-4,013	-42.3
Anchorage Borough	260,283	33,945	15.0
Bethel Census Area	16,006	2,350	17.2
Bristol Bay Borough	1,258	-152	-10.8
Denali Borough	1,893	129	7.3
Dillingham Census Area	4,922	910	22.7
Fairbanks North Star Borough	82,840	5,120	6.6
Haines Borough	2,392	275	13.0
Juneau Borough	30,711	3,960	14.8
Kenai Peninsula Borough	49,691	8,889	21.8
Ketchikan Gateway Borough	14,070	242	1.8
Kodiak Island Borough	13,913	604	4.5
Lake and Peninsula Borough	1,823	155	9.3
Matanuska-Susitna Borough	59,322	19,639	49.5
Nome Census Area	9,196	908	11.0
North Slope Borough	7,385	1,406	23.5
Northwest Arctic Borough	7,208	1,095	17.9
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area	6,146	-132	-2.1
Sitka Borough	8,835	247	2.9
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area	3,436	-244	-6.6
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area	6,174	261	4.4
Valdez-Cordova Census Area	10,195	243	2.4
Wade Hampton Census Area	7,028	1,237	21.4
Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area	6,684	-358	-5.1
Yakutat Borough	808	103	14.6
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	6,551	-163	-2.4

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census

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