Utqiaġvik, Alaska

Utqiaġvik population, 2020 to 2024

Utqiaġvik lost 244 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +9.

Utqiaġvik covers 18.77 square miles of land and 2.70 of water, for 249 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Utqiaġvik is less dense than the typical town.

What county Utqiaġvik is in

All of Utqiaġvik's residents live in North Slope, which had 10,663 residents in 2024. Utqiaġvik holds 43.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Utqiaġvik

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Utqiaġvik by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99723. 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 Utqiaġvik is

The Census internal point of Utqiaġvik is at 71.264400, -156.753700. Juneau, the capital, is 1,097.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fairbanks, AK (31,732 people), 501.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK, 726.3 miles away.

Daylight in Utqiaġvik

At 71.26° N, Utqiaġvik gets about 24 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice and 0 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 24 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Utqiaġvik

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Kotzebue, 333.6 miles away, with 2,889 people.