Kenai, Alaska

Kenai population, 2020 to 2024

Kenai added 328 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.4%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 11 Alaska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 4th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alaska has 8,033 people, so Kenai is 97% of it.

Kenai covers 29.14 square miles of land and 6.82 of water, for 267 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Kenai is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kenai is in

All of Kenai's residents live in Kenai Peninsula, which had 61,259 residents in 2024. Kenai holds 12.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kenai

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kenai by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99611. 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 Kenai is

The Census internal point of Kenai is at 60.562200, -151.208100. Juneau, the capital, is 608.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anchorage, AK (289,600 people), 77.3 miles away.

Daylight in Kenai

At 60.56° N, Kenai gets about 19 h 06 min of daylight around the June solstice and 5 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 13 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kenai

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Soldotna, 7.1 miles away, with 4,553 people.