Ketchikan, Alaska

Ketchikan population, 2020 to 2024

Ketchikan lost 135 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -17. Among 11 Alaska places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alaska has 8,033 people, so Ketchikan is 1.0 times that size.

Ketchikan covers 3.83 square miles of land and 1.07 of water, for 2,097 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Ketchikan is denser than the typical town.

What county Ketchikan is in

All of Ketchikan's residents live in Ketchikan Gateway, which had 13,677 residents in 2024. Ketchikan holds 58.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ketchikan

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ketchikan by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99901. 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 Ketchikan is

The Census internal point of Ketchikan is at 55.357100, -131.674600. Juneau, the capital, is 228.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sitka, AK (8,355 people), 190.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA, 651.6 miles away.

Daylight in Ketchikan

At 55.36° N, Ketchikan gets about 17 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 7 h 05 min around the December solstice, a swing of 10 h 22 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ketchikan

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Craig, 57.1 miles away, with 1,051 people.