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Aleutians West Census Area, AK

A census area, and one of the 3,222 county-level areas the Census Bureau reports for the United States. It has no county government of its own. The Census Bureau draws it so that the whole country can be counted. It does not govern anything.

Population5178
Density0.5people per km² of land
Median household income$107,340
Land area11,378km²

Its peers

These are the 50 areas most like Aleutians West Census Area in population density and median household income (the middle household income). Both are measured in percentage terms and put on the same scale, so neither one counts for more. The closest eight: Glasscock County, TX, Bristol Bay Borough, AK, Alpine County, CA, Burke County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Sitka City and Borough, AK, Schleicher County, TX, Divide County, ND. The peer scores below compare this county with all 50.

Least like its peers

The measures where Aleutians West Census Areais furthest from the average of its peers. The gap is shown in “sd” (standard deviations), which means typical gaps between peers: −2 sd is about two typical gaps below the peer average. A national ranking would hide these numbers behind the county’s income.

MeasureValueAmong peersNationallyvs peers
Share Asian, not Hispanic40.7%100th pct by value100th pct by value +8.1 sd
Share foreign-born44.1%100th pct by value100th pct by value +7.7 sd
Orthodox Christian adherents8.03100th pct by value100th pct by value +6.8 sd
Homeownership rate29.5%0th pct by value0th pct by value -5.2 sd
Lacking social and emotional support33.5%0th pct2nd pct +5.1 sd
Cancer other than skin cancer4.9%100th pct99th pct -4.5 sd

How it has changed

This chart covers 2010–2024. A few measures were published only once — the school, moving-up-the-income-ladder (mobility) and social-ties (social capital) ones. They show as a single point that says so. Everything else is drawn over the years its publisher covers. Each value sits at the year it describes, not the year it came out.

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Every measure

Rates and medians come first, then counts. Counts have no peer score. A county’s population cannot be high or low “for its peers” when the peers were picked partly by density. Density and median household income have no peer score either, since they are what the peers were picked by.

Adult income rank of children raised poor here0.3528-1.9Opportunity Atlas
Adults under 65 without health insurance13.1%1627+0.6CDC PLACES
Aggregate travel time to work21,450 min———Census ACS 5-year
All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over15%1852+0.8CDC PLACES
Any disability26.3%8489-0.8CDC PLACES
Arrivals per 100 people staying12.498·98·+2.8IRS county migration flows
Arthritis17.7%100100-3.3CDC PLACES
Binge drinking17.6%8449-0.7CDC PLACES
Black Protestant adherents092·45·-0.3
Business closing rate6.1110·10·-1.1Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments117———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments closed7———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments opened12———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business opening rate10.552·68·+0.0Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Cancer other than skin cancer4.9%10099-4.5CDC PLACES
Catholic adherents3.0614·28·-0.8
Child poverty rate, ages 0-17 uncertain4.8%100100-1.7Census SAIPE
Children in single-parent households uncertain0.113%10·3·-1.1County Health Rankings
Children in the mobility cohort478———Opportunity Atlas
Children with below-median parental income478———Social Capital Atlas
Cholesterol screening77.4%02-2.1CDC PLACES
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease4.8%8894-1.2CDC PLACES
Cognitive disability12.2%9896-1.4CDC PLACES
Colorectal cancer screening49.8%24-2.0CDC PLACES
Congregations per 10,000 people19.132·43·-0.6
Coronary heart disease5.7%1657+0.8CDC PLACES
Current asthma7.8%100100-4.1CDC PLACES
Current cigarette smoking14.9%3265+0.5CDC PLACES
Dental visit in the past year51.7%420-2.1CDC PLACES
Departures per 100 people staying10.390·97·+1.7IRS county migration flows
Depression13.1%100100-4.0CDC PLACES
Diagnosed diabetes11.4%638+1.9CDC PLACES
Disability-free score0.71254·79·+0.2
Economic connectedness0.833756-1.7Social Capital Atlas
Economy score1.9980·93·+0.2
Effective property tax rate0.70864·39·-0.1Census ACS 5-year
Employed3,372———BLS LAUS
Evangelical Protestant adherents7.0736·13·-0.4
Fair or poor self-rated health18.7%1861+0.5CDC PLACES
Food insecurity16.4%1245+1.6CDC PLACES
Foreign-born population2,282———Census ACS 5-year
Frequent mental distress13%100100-2.4CDC PLACES
Frequent physical distress11.7%6686-0.5CDC PLACES
Friending bias-0.03698898-1.1Social Capital Atlas
Friending clustering0.13285·81·+1.1Social Capital Atlas
Gini index of income inequality0.34698100-1.7Census ACS 5-year
Gross domestic product$977,560k———BEA Regional Accounts
Health score1.5898·100·+2.7
Hearing disability7.6%1021+1.1CDC PLACES
High blood pressure32.2%655+1.4CDC PLACES
High cholesterol32.2%1449+1.4CDC PLACES
Homeownership rate29.5%0·0·-5.2Census ACS 5-year
Housing insecurity12.7%1552+1.0CDC PLACES
Housing units1,391———Census ACS 5-year
Income gap between arrivals and departures$-23,3697·1·-1.3IRS county migration flows
Independent-living disability6.4%9295-1.2CDC PLACES
Injury deaths uncertain80.87873-0.5County Health Rankings
Labour force3,475———BLS LAUS
Lack of reliable transportation9%1544+1.1CDC PLACES
Lacking social and emotional support33.5%02+5.1CDC PLACES
Learning rate uncertain0.0969100100+2.0Stanford Education Data Archive
Life expectancy85.9 years93100+1.5County Health Rankings
Loneliness37.7%012+3.0CDC PLACES
Mainline Protestant adherents0.6722·3·-0.6
Mammography in the past two years64.3%43-1.8CDC PLACES
Material security score1.1472·96·+0.8
Mean adjusted gross income per return$81,8953277-0.3IRS Statistics of Income
Mean income of arriving households$51,7074·39·-0.9IRS county migration flows
Mean income of departing households$75,07676·90·+0.3IRS county migration flows
Mean travel time to work6.69 min98100-2.0Census ACS 5-year
Median age39.1 years30·28·-0.3Census ACS 5-year
Median gross rent$1,88698·98·+2.7Census ACS 5-year
Median home value$419,10084·94·+0.6Census ACS 5-year
Median household income$107,340—97—Census ACS 5-year
Median household income (model-based)$104,1609697+1.7Census SAIPE
Median property tax bill2,96986·86·+1.2Census ACS 5-year
Membership of volunteering groups0.0591%1930-0.9Social Capital Atlas
Membership organisations0185-1.5County Health Rankings
Mobility disability10.9%4682-0.1CDC PLACES
Mutual-friend share0.98213·16·-0.4Social Capital Atlas
Net business formation rate4.3782·91·+0.7Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Net migration per 100 people staying2.1196·93·+1.4IRS county migration flows
No leisure-time physical activity25.6%2057+0.9CDC PLACES
Obesity30.5%8692-1.0CDC PLACES
Occupied housing units977———Census ACS 5-year
Orthodox Christian adherents8.03100·100·+6.8
Other religion adherents024·11·-0.5
Owner-occupied housing units uncertain288———Census ACS 5-year
People covered by a tax return3,240———IRS Statistics of Income
People per tax return210·3·-1.5IRS Statistics of Income
People who did not move2,470———IRS county migration flows
Per capita income$52,5968296+1.0Census ACS 5-year
Per capita personal income$70,4814085-0.2BEA Regional Accounts
Personal income$370,520k———BEA Regional Accounts
Population5,257———BEA Regional Accounts
Population5,160———County Health Rankings
Population aged 15 and over4,679———Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 18 and over4,734———CDC PLACES
Population aged 25 and over3,921———Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 65 and over uncertain330———Census ACS 5-year
Population below the poverty line uncertain459———Census ACS 5-year
Population below the poverty line492———Census SAIPE
Population for whom poverty status is determined4,970———Census ACS 5-year
Population for whom poverty status is determined4,920———Census SAIPE
Population in the same house one year ago3,912———Census ACS 5-year
Population with a bachelor's degree or higher687———Census ACS 5-year
Population, decennial census5,232———
Poverty rate uncertain9.24%4282-0.0Census ACS 5-year
Poverty rate (model-based)10%3879+0.2Census SAIPE
Premature mortality uncertain2299399-1.1County Health Rankings
Private job growth6.6576·92·+0.2BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Private jobs2,693———BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Public-good pages per 1,000 users0.010989-0.9Social Capital Atlas
Received food stamps8.9%74·18·+0.2CDC PLACES
Religious adherents18.86·1·-1.2
Returns claiming charitable contributions1.55%24·13·-0.6IRS Statistics of Income
Returns claiming the earned income credit6.22%24·3·-0.6IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting capital gains5.7%0·3·-2.2IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting unemployment compensation5.18%92·92·+1.6IRS Statistics of Income
Routine checkup in the past year64.9%6·1·-1.9CDC PLACES
Self-care disability3.1%3677-0.1CDC PLACES
Share aged 65 and over uncertain6.37%0·0·-2.5Census ACS 5-year
Share American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic7.71%74·91·+0.2Census ACS 5-year
Share Asian, not Hispanic40.7%100·100·+8.1Census ACS 5-year
Share Black, not Hispanic uncertain5.27%—55·—Census ACS 5-year
Share divorced uncertain7.89%12·5·-1.0Census ACS 5-year
Share foreign-born44.1%100·100·+7.7Census ACS 5-year
Share Hispanic or Latino, any race13.8%66·76·+0.1Census ACS 5-year
Share in the same house a year ago75.5%2·1·-2.5Census ACS 5-year
Share never married37.8%100·88·+2.4Census ACS 5-year
Share now married51.9%6·47·-1.2Census ACS 5-year
Share of some other race, not Hispanic0%—53·—Census ACS 5-year
Share of two or more races, not Hispanic uncertain6.89%68·95·+0.4Census ACS 5-year
Share separated uncertain4.23%—98·—Census ACS 5-year
Share White, not Hispanic23.7%0·3·-3.4Census ACS 5-year
Share with a bachelor's degree or higher17.5%427-1.1Census ACS 5-year
Sleeping less than 7 hours38.9%636+1.5CDC PLACES
Social connection score-1.380·1·-2.9
Stroke3.1%1050+1.2CDC PLACES
Taking blood pressure medication51.9%44·9·-0.6CDC PLACES
Tax returns filed1,930———IRS Statistics of Income
Tests taken3,341———Stanford Education Data Archive
Threat of utility shut-off7.6%2468+0.4CDC PLACES
Total population5,178———Census ACS 5-year
Unemployed103———BLS LAUS
Unemployment rate3%4268-0.1BLS LAUS
Vacancy rate29.8%76·89·+0.3Census ACS 5-year
Vacant housing units414———Census ACS 5-year
Vision disability5%1449+0.9CDC PLACES
Women aged 15 to 50792———Census ACS 5-year
Workers aged 16 and over who commute3,204———Census ACS 5-year

14of these values are marked uncertain. Either the published margin of error (the likely range around a survey estimate) is wide compared with the estimate, or the value was split across Connecticut’s 2022 boundary change. A split value is shared out between old and new areas, not measured directly.

A percentile is the share of the comparison group at or below this county’s value. A peer score needs at least 20 peers with published data. Where fewer report, the cell is left blank instead of being worked out from a handful.