Nome, Alaska

Nome population, 2020 to 2024

Nome lost 21 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +19.

Nome covers 12.72 square miles of land and 8.77 of water, for 288 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Nome is less dense than the typical town.

What county Nome is in

All of Nome's residents live in Nome, which had 9,836 residents in 2024. Nome holds 37.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nome

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nome by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99762. 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 Nome is

The Census internal point of Nome is at 64.505700, -165.415300. Juneau, the capital, is 1,097.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Bethel, AK (6,335 people), 280.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK, 556.4 miles away.

Daylight in Nome

At 64.51° N, Nome gets about 21 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 3 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 17 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nome

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Kotzebue, 184.3 miles away, with 2,889 people.