Bethel, Alaska

Bethel population, 2020 to 2024

Bethel added 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +92. Among 11 Alaska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alaska has 8,033 people, so Bethel is 79% of it.

Bethel covers 45.07 square miles of land and 5.04 of water, for 141 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Bethel is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bethel is in

All of Bethel's residents live in Bethel, which had 18,237 residents in 2024. Bethel holds 34.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bethel

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bethel by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99559. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bethel is

The Census internal point of Bethel is at 60.793900, -161.795900. Juneau, the capital, is 966.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kenai, AK (7,770 people), 358.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK, 419.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bethel

At 60.79° N, Bethel gets about 19 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 5 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 13 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bethel

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Hooper Bay, 152.1 miles away, with 1,299 people.