Lake and Peninsula, Alaska

Lake and Peninsula population, land area and income

Lake and Peninsula had 1,315 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 23,831.0 square miles of land. It ranks 27th of 30 in Alaska by population and 8th by land area. That works out to 0.1 people per square mile, below the US average of 96.3, and the 2nd lowest nationally.

The median county-equivalent in Alaska has 6,175 residents, so Lake and Peninsula has 21% of the typical county's population.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $62,547 is below the national county median among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How Lake and Peninsula's population changed since 2020

Lake and Peninsula lost 137 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a drop of 9.4%. That ranks 29th 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, Lake and Peninsula recorded 87 births and 58 deaths, a natural change of +29. Net international migration added +11 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to -197. The largest single component was domestic migration, which removed 197 people.

Where Lake and Peninsula is

The Census internal point of Lake and Peninsula is at 58.108500, -156.413400. It sits in UTM zone 4N. The map shades Alaska's 30 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with Lake and Peninsula outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in Lake and Peninsula

No incorporated place of 1,000 or more people has residents in Lake and Peninsula. Its 1,315 residents live in smaller towns, census-designated places, or unincorporated land, which the subcounty estimates do not list at this size.

Counties bordering Lake and Peninsula

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 6 neighbors for Lake and Peninsula. The most populous is Kenai Peninsula, AK, with 61,259 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Kenai Peninsula

  61,259 people

  213 mi NE

• Bethel

  18,237 people

  235 mi NNW

• Kodiak Island

  12,654 people

  96 mi ESE

• Dillingham

  4,642 people

  119 mi NNW

• Aleutians East

  3,632 people

  290 mi SW

• Bristol Bay

  884 people

  48 mi NNW

Distance to Juneau and the nearest big city

Juneau is 797.2 miles E of Lake and Peninsula's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Anchorage, AK (population 289,600), 326.6 miles away.

Lake and Peninsula FIPS code

The FIPS code of Lake and Peninsula is 02164: state code 02 for Alaska plus borough or census area code 164. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $62,547.