Youngest Cities in Alaska

The top 25 of 25 Alaska cities on GIS Map, ranked by lowest median age.

#	City	County	Median age	Population
1	North Pole	Fairbanks North Star	28.2 years	2,370
2	Fairbanks	Fairbanks North Star	29 years	32,083
3	Kotzebue	Northwest Arctic	31 years	2,984
4	Nome	Nome	31.4 years	3,653
5	Bethel	Bethel	32.4 years	6,312
6	Palmer	Matanuska-Susitna	32.9 years	6,268
7	Soldotna	Kenai Peninsula	33.1 years	4,485
8	Kenai	Kenai Peninsula	34.4 years	7,641
9	Utqiagvik	North Slope	34.4 years	4,778
10	Wasilla	Matanuska-Susitna	34.8 years	9,720
11	Anchorage	Anchorage	35.2 years	288,976
12	Dillingham	Dillingham	35.5 years	2,109
13	Ketchikan	Ketchikan Gateway	37.4 years	8,078
14	Seward	Kenai Peninsula	37.7 years	2,794
15	Cordova	Valdez-Cordova	37.8 years	2,453
16	Valdez	Valdez-Cordova	38.4 years	3,847
17	Sitka	Sitka	39.7 years	8,368
18	Homer	Kenai Peninsula	40 years	5,877
19	Juneau	Juneau	40 years	31,794
20	Kodiak	Kodiak Island	40.2 years	5,447
21	Unalaska	Aleutians West	40.4 years	4,556
22	Skagway	Skagway	40.5 years	1,174
23	Petersburg	Petersburg	46.1 years	3,227
24	Wrangell	Wrangell	48.1 years	2,088
25	Haines	Haines	50.1 years	1,757

Top Alaska Counties

Counties ranked by lowest median age.

1. Kusilvak Census Area23.6 years 2. Northwest Arctic Borough28.8 years 3. Bethel Census Area29 years 4. Nome Census Area29.4 years 5. Dillingham Census Area31.7 years 6. Fairbanks North Star Borough32.5 years 7. Lake and Peninsula Borough33.7 years 8. North Slope Borough35 years 9. Kodiak Island Borough35.1 years 10. Anchorage Municipality35.2 years

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, “Youngest Cities in Alaska”, https://gismap.land/rankings/alaska/youngest-cities. Figures from U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.

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