Homer, Alaska

Homer population, 2020 to 2024

Homer added 586 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.6%. In the latest year it moved by +91. Among 11 Alaska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alaska has 8,033 people, so Homer is 76% of it.

Homer covers 13.79 square miles of land and 11.47 of water, for 445 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Homer is close to the typical town.

What county Homer is in

All of Homer's residents live in Kenai Peninsula, which had 61,259 residents in 2024. Homer holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Homer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Homer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99603. 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 Homer is

The Census internal point of Homer is at 59.647500, -151.513100. Juneau, the capital, is 614.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kenai, AK (7,770 people), 64.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK, 130.1 miles away.

Daylight in Homer

At 59.65° N, Homer gets about 18 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 5 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 12 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Homer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Soldotna, 59.9 miles away, with 4,553 people.