Population
Alaska Health Area: Southeast
Source: US Census 2000, Ak Department of Labor
Population	Haines	Juneau	Ketchikan	Sitka	Prince of Wales	Skagway Angoon Hoonah	Wrangell Petersburg	Yakutat	Southeast Health Area	Alaska
Population 2000	2,392	30,711	14,070	8,835	6,146	3,436	6,684	808	73,082	626,932
Population change 1990-2000 (percent)	-13%	15%	22%	3%	-2%	-7%	-5%	15%	6%	14%
Sex	Haines	Juneau	Ketchikan	Sitka	Prince of Wales	Skagway Angoon Hoonah	Wrangell Petersburg	Yakutat	Southeast Health Area	Alaska
Male: Number	1,211	15,469	7,189	4,505	3,350	1,848	3,477	479	37,528	324,112
Male:Percent	515	50%	51%	51%	55%	54%	52%	59%	51%	52%
Female: Number	1,181	15,242	6,881	4,330	2,796	1,588	3,207	329	35,554	302,820
Female:Percent	49%	50%	49%	49%	46%	46%	48%	41%	49%	48%
Age	Haines	Juneau	Ketchikan	Sitka	Prince of Wales	Skagway Angoon Hoonah	Wrangell Petersburg	Yakutat	Southeast Health Area	Alaska
Persons under 5 years	128	2,003	964	565	453	178	445	39	4,775	47,591
Percent under 5 years	5%	7%	7%	6%	7%	5%	7%	5%	7%	8%
Persons over 65	250	825	1,109	744	350	252	634	43	4,207	35,699
Percent over 65	11%	3%	8%	8%	6%	7%	10%	5%	6%	6%
Median age	40.7	35.3	36	35.2	34.7	37.8	37.2	37.2		32.4
Race: Numbers*	Haines	Juneau	Ketchikan	Sitka	Prince of Wales	Skagway Angoon Hoonah	Wrangell Petersburg	Yakutat	Southeast Health Area	Alaska
White	2,078	24,728	11,137	6,627	3,660	2,156	5,345	458	56,189	463,999
Black/African-American	7	439	119	73	22	14	38	2	714	27,147
Alaska Native/ American Indian	373	5,084	2,689	2,178	2,783	1,356	1,512	378	16,353	119,241
Asian	26	2,060	746	462	71	40	219	32	3,656	32,686
Native Hawaian/Pacific Islander	5	223	62	58	18	10	29	15	420	5,515
Other	16	539	121	151	50	48	114	3	1,042	15,151
Hispanic (any race)	33	1,040	372	290	107	97	132	6	2,077	25,852
Race: Percent*	Haines	Juneau	Ketchikan	Sitka	Prince of Wales	Skagway Angoon Hoonah	Wrangell Petersburg	Yakutat	Southeast Health Area	Alaska
White	87%	81%	79%	75%	60%	63%	80%	57%	77%	70%
Black/African-American	0%	1%	1%	1%	0%	0%	1%	0%	1%	4%
Alaska Native/ American Indian	16%	17%	19%	25%	45%	39%	23%	47%	22%	18%
Asian	1%	7%	5%	5%	1%	1%	3%	4%	5%	5%
Native Hawaian/Pacific Islander	0%	1%	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	2%	1%	1%
Other	1%	2%	1%	2%	1%	1%	2%	0%	1%	2%
Hispanic (any race)	1%	3%	3%	3%	2%	3%	2%	1%	4%	4%
* Racial data for Alaska uses Modified Estimates (MARS) of Race and Ethnicity to distribute "more than one race" respondents among the racial categories.
Alaska Health Profiles Online Prepared by Data and Evaluation Unit, Division of Public Health, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services Updated 8/7/02