Most Educated Cities in Alaska

The top 25 of 25 Alaska cities on GIS Map, ranked by the share of adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher.

#	City	County	Bachelor's degree or higher	Population
1	Seward	Kenai Peninsula	43%	2,794
2	Juneau	Juneau	41.2%	31,794
3	Homer	Kenai Peninsula	40.1%	5,877
4	Anchorage	Anchorage	38.7%	288,976
5	Sitka	Sitka	34.3%	8,368
6	Haines	Haines	34.2%	1,757
7	Valdez	Valdez-Cordova	31.9%	3,847
8	Cordova	Valdez-Cordova	31.5%	2,453
9	North Pole	Fairbanks North Star	29.4%	2,370
10	Skagway	Skagway	29.3%	1,174
11	Kenai	Kenai Peninsula	28.1%	7,641
12	Petersburg	Petersburg	26.7%	3,227
13	Fairbanks	Fairbanks North Star	26.2%	32,083
14	Kodiak	Kodiak Island	25.3%	5,447
15	Dillingham	Dillingham	24.9%	2,109
16	Bethel	Bethel	24.5%	6,312
17	Ketchikan	Ketchikan Gateway	24.5%	8,078
18	Palmer	Matanuska-Susitna	24.5%	6,268
19	Soldotna	Kenai Peninsula	22.7%	4,485
20	Nome	Nome	22%	3,653
21	Wasilla	Matanuska-Susitna	21.7%	9,720
22	Wrangell	Wrangell	21.4%	2,088
23	Kotzebue	Northwest Arctic	18.7%	2,984
24	Unalaska	Aleutians West	17.9%	4,556
25	Utqiagvik	North Slope	16.4%	4,778

Top Alaska Counties

Counties ranked by the share of adults 25+ with a bachelor's degree or higher.

1. Juneau City and Borough41.2%2. Anchorage Municipality38.7%3. Sitka City and Borough34.3%4. Haines Borough34.1%5. Fairbanks North Star Borough33.1%6. Chugach Census Area31.4%7. Kenai Peninsula Borough29.8%8. Kodiak Island Borough28.7%9. Skagway Municipality28.5%10. Ketchikan Gateway Borough27.4%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates. Only cities covered by GIS Map with at least 1,000 residents are ranked. Estimates carry margins of error.

Citing this page: GIS Map, “Most Educated Cities in Alaska”, https://gismap.land/rankings/alaska/most-educated-cities. Figures from U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

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