Kotzebue, Alaska

Kotzebue population, 2020 to 2024

Kotzebue lost 211 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.8%. In the latest year it moved by -49.

Kotzebue covers 24.41 square miles of land and 2.10 of water, for 118 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Kotzebue is less dense than the typical town.

What county Kotzebue is in

All of Kotzebue's residents live in Northwest Arctic, which had 7,134 residents in 2024. Kotzebue holds 40.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kotzebue

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kotzebue by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99752. 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 Kotzebue is

The Census internal point of Kotzebue is at 66.886800, -162.491700. Juneau, the capital, is 1,057.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nome, AK (3,668 people), 184.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK, 559.5 miles away.

Daylight in Kotzebue

At 66.89° N, Kotzebue gets about 24 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 1 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 22 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kotzebue

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Nome, 184.3 miles away, with 3,668 people.