Craig, Alaska

Craig population, 2020 to 2024

Craig added 15 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.4%. In the latest year it moved by +10.

Craig covers 6.69 square miles of land and 2.82 of water, for 157 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Craig is less dense than the typical town.

What county Craig is in

All of Craig's residents live in Prince of Wales-Hyder, which had 5,746 residents in 2024. Craig holds 18.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Craig

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Craig by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99921. 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 Craig is

The Census internal point of Craig is at 55.488700, -133.111600. Juneau, the capital, is 200.5 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ketchikan, AK (8,033 people), 57.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 697.4 miles away.

Daylight in Craig

At 55.49° N, Craig gets about 17 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 7 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 10 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Craig

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Ketchikan, 57.1 miles away, with 8,033 people.