Hoonah-Angoon Census Area area

Population and density of Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

The Census Bureau estimates that 2,271 people lived in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area on July 1, 2025. That ranks #3,098 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #23 of 30 in Alaska. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 2,361, the population has declined by 90 (−3.8%), compared with +0.5% for Alaska as a whole.

With 6,560 square miles of land, that is 0.35 people per square mile (0.13 per km²), placing Hoonah-Angoon Census Area #3,205 nationally for density and #21 in Alaska. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Alaska median is 0.73. Put another way, there are about 1,849 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area. Together they are home to 2,107 people (92.8%); the other 164 (7.2%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Hoonah city, with 960 residents in the county. By land, Gustavus city is the largest at 35 mi².

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Hoonah-Angoon Census Area. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Hoonah-Angoon Census Area is not part of any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area in the Office of Management and Budget’s July 2023 delineation; 1,306 other county equivalents are also outside one. These areas are built around an urban core of at least 10,000 people plus the counties tied to it by commuting, so counties outside them are generally rural.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area; 6 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

99820998259982699827998299983299841

ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

Hoonah-Angoon Census Area shares a land border with 5 county equivalents. It has more land than 4 of them. The largest neighbor is Yakutat City and Borough (7,638.2 mi²) and the smallest is Haines Borough (2,339.1 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area forms a block of 25,012.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 26.2%.

How big is Hoonah-Angoon Census Area compared with U.S. states?

Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has more land than 4 of the 50 states. It is about 1 times the land area of Hawaii (6,422.6 mi²), while New Jersey, the next larger state, has 1.1 times as much land (7,355 mi²). Alaska’s county land could hold about 87 areas the size of Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 81 miles (130.3 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Hoonah-Angoon Census Area?

Hoonah-Angoon Census Area has more land than 3,170 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Hoonah-Angoon Census Area at #32 nationally by total area, 20 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 31.6%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 30.4 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.