Valdez, Alaska

Valdez population, 2020 to 2024

Valdez lost 253 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -6.4%. In the latest year it moved by -81.

Valdez covers 212.91 square miles of land and 59.00 of water, for 17 people per square mile of land. The median Alaska place of 5,000+ has 445, so Valdez is less dense than the typical town.

What county Valdez is in

All of Valdez's residents live in Chugach, which had 6,604 residents in 2024. Valdez holds 56.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valdez

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Valdez by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 99686. 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 Valdez is

The Census internal point of Valdez is at 61.083600, -146.317200. Juneau, the capital, is 456.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anchorage, AK (289,600 people), 99.2 miles away.

Daylight in Valdez

At 61.08° N, Valdez gets about 19 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 5 h 30 min around the December solstice, a swing of 13 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Valdez

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alaska, measured between internal points. The closest is Cordova, 44.5 miles away, with 2,413 people.