Ketchikan Gateway, Alaska

Ketchikan Gateway population, land area and income

Ketchikan Gateway had 13,677 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 4,857.1 square miles of land. It ranks 7th of 30 in Alaska by population and 21st by land area. That works out to 2.8 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and in the bottom quarter nationally.

The median county-equivalent in Alaska has 6,175 residents, so Ketchikan Gateway is 2.2 times that size.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $87,760 is in the top tenth among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Ketchikan Gateway's population changed since 2020

Ketchikan Gateway lost 235 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 1.7%. That ranks 16th of 30 in Alaska for growth. The median Alaska county changed by -1.3%, and the state as a whole by +1.0%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, Ketchikan Gateway recorded 516 births and 483 deaths, a natural change of +33. Net international migration added +172 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -477. The largest single component was domestic migration, which removed 477 people.

Where Ketchikan Gateway is

The Census internal point of Ketchikan Gateway is at 55.449900, -131.106700. It sits in UTM zone 9N. The map shades Alaska's 30 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Ketchikan Gateway outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Ketchikan Gateway

One incorporated place of 1,000+ people has residents in Ketchikan Gateway, 8,033 people together, or 59% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside Ketchikan Gateway; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is Ketchikan with 8,033.

Counties bordering Ketchikan Gateway

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 2 neighbors for Ketchikan Gateway. The most populous is Prince of Wales-Hyder, AK, with 5,746 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Prince of Wales-Hyder

  5,746 people

  82 mi WNW

• Wrangell

  2,064 people

  62 mi NW

Distance to Juneau and the nearest big city

Juneau is 233.3 miles NNW of Ketchikan Gateway's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Everett, WA (population 113,011), 641.7 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Juneau, AK (population 31,572), 232.8 miles away.

Ketchikan Gateway FIPS code

The FIPS code of Ketchikan Gateway is 02130: state code 02 for Alaska plus borough or census area code 130. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $87,760.