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County health in Alaska

Alaska had 30 counties in CDC’s model-based county estimates for 2023, according to CDC’s PLACES.

Alaska’s counties on each measure

Age-adjusted, as counties are compared, with each end’s 95% interval. The median is one of the published values: at least half the counties are at or below it. Each measure with two or more counties with an estimate links to Alaska’s counties ranked on it.

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Each PLACES measure across Alaska’s counties: the median, highest and lowest age-adjusted estimate
MeasureMedian countyHighest
Any disability among adults30.0%Kusilvak 49.9% (44.0% to 56.0%)
Cognitive disability among adults14.8%Kusilvak 25.1% (21.8% to 28.8%)
Hearing disability among adults8.1%Kusilvak 13.8% (12.3% to 15.5%)
Independent living disability among adults7.8%Kusilvak 17.6% (15.2% to 20.2%)
Mobility disability among adults11.6%Kusilvak 25.1% (21.9% to 28.5%)
Self-care disability among adults3.3%Kusilvak 8.1% (7.0% to 9.3%)
Vision disability among adults5.0%Kusilvak 13.8% (12.1% to 15.8%)
All teeth lost among adults aged ≥65 years15.0%Kusilvak 44.6% (39.2% to 50.2%)
Arthritis among adults21.9%Kusilvak 28.4% (25.2% to 31.9%)
Cancer (non-skin) or melanoma among adults6.6%Kenai Peninsula 7.4% (6.6% to 8.1%)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults6.0%Kusilvak 12.4% (10.7% to 14.3%)
Coronary heart disease among adults5.9%Kusilvak 9.6% (8.5% to 10.8%)
Current asthma among adults10.4%Kusilvak 14.6% (12.9% to 16.5%)
Depression among adults20.1%Kusilvak 22.7% (19.2% to 26.7%)
Diagnosed diabetes among adults9.1%Kusilvak 18.0% (15.8% to 20.4%)
High blood pressure among adults31.7%Kusilvak 41.5% (37.2% to 46.0%)
High cholesterol among adults who have ever been screened30.0%Aleutians East 32.5% (28.1% to 37.1%)
Obesity among adults35.0%Kusilvak 47.0% (38.3% to 56.4%)
Stroke among adults3.2%Kusilvak 6.2% (5.5% to 6.9%)
Fair or poor self-rated health status among adults18.7%Kusilvak 39.0% (34.0% to 44.3%)
Frequent mental distress among adults16.3%Kusilvak 23.5% (20.8% to 26.4%)
Frequent physical distress among adults13.2%Kusilvak 23.2% (20.4% to 26.4%)
Cholesterol screening among adults77.4%Anchorage 80.6% (78.4% to 82.9%)
Colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 45–75 years52.2%Chugach 57.6% (52.5% to 62.7%)
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years10.5%Kusilvak 18.1% (14.1% to 22.6%)
Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years64.4%Sitka 71.4% (63.1% to 78.7%)
Taking medicine to control high blood pressure among adults with high blood pressure50.9%Kusilvak 54.2% (49.8% to 59.2%)
Visited dentist or dental clinic in the past year among adults55.3%Anchorage 64.2% (61.3% to 66.9%)
Visits to doctor for routine checkup within the past year among adults66.0%Anchorage 70.7% (67.7% to 73.7%)
Binge drinking among adults18.7%Copper River 21.3% (17.5% to 25.1%)
Current cigarette smoking among adults16.7%Kusilvak 36.9% (31.9% to 42.0%)
No leisure-time physical activity among adults22.5%Kusilvak 38.5% (32.4% to 44.9%)
Short sleep duration among adults36.8%Kusilvak 45.6% (38.1% to 53.6%)
Food insecurity in the past 12 months among adults15.0%Kusilvak 45.8% (39.4% to 52.2%)
Housing insecurity in the past 12 months among adults12.7%Kusilvak 31.6% (27.0% to 36.4%)
Lack of reliable transportation in the past 12 months among adults9.7%Kusilvak 26.8% (22.9% to 30.7%)
Lack of social and emotional support among adults26.5%Bethel 36.1% (31.4% to 40.8%)
Loneliness among adults34.0%Kusilvak 39.3% (33.3% to 45.5%)
Received food stamps in the past 12 months among adults9.5%Kusilvak 38.9% (33.0% to 45.2%)
Utility services shut-off threat in the past 12 months among adults8.5%Kusilvak 24.9% (21.4% to 28.3%)

Every county in Alaska

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Every county CDC served in Alaska, with how many measures it has a published estimate for
CountyMeasures published
Aleutians East40 of 40
Aleutians West40 of 40
Anchorage40 of 40
Bethel40 of 40
Bristol Bay40 of 40
Chugach40 of 40
Copper River40 of 40
Denali40 of 40
Dillingham40 of 40
Fairbanks North Star40 of 40
Haines40 of 40
Hoonah-Angoon40 of 40
Juneau40 of 40
Kenai Peninsula40 of 40
Ketchikan Gateway40 of 40
Kodiak Island40 of 40
Kusilvak40 of 40
Lake and Peninsula40 of 40
Matanuska-Susitna40 of 40
Nome40 of 40
North Slope40 of 40
Northwest Arctic40 of 40
Petersburg40 of 40
Prince of Wales-Hyder40 of 40
Sitka40 of 40
Skagway40 of 40
Southeast Fairbanks40 of 40
Wrangell40 of 40
Yakutat40 of 40
Yukon-Koyukuk40 of 40

Alaska elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crime Crime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Cities by violent crime rate in Alaska Crime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison population Crime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and age Crime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crime Crime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligations Federal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofits Nonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctors Health

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Farm program payments Farm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loans PPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Population, age, income and origin Demographics

    The Census Bureau's population estimates year by year, with births, deaths and migration, and age, income, poverty, housing and origin from the American Community Survey, each with its margin of error.

  • Public schools Schools

    Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

  • Banks and credit unions Banks and credit unions

    The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Housing Housing

    The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Mortgage lending Mortgage lending

    The mortgage applications, loans and denials lenders reported in the state under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and its largest lenders and counties.

  • Cost of living Cost of living

    BEA’s price level for the state against the nation, for goods, rents, utilities and other services, and its metro areas beside it.

  • College athletics Sports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforce Federal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The Alaska Factbook entry Across the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration hub has no page for this state: EOIR runs no immigration court here, and CBP publishes by sector and field office, which are its own areas of responsibility rather than a geography. Immigration and the border.

Sources

Compiled automatically from PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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