In all, 288,000 people of all races live in Anchorage AK. Of these, 5.1% identify as Black , 9.0% as Asian, 9.4% Hispanic and Latino, 2.8% Pacific Islander, 8.7% American Indians or Alaska Natives, and 57.0% as white. 0.1% of people in Anchorage AK identify themselves as other races, and 8.1% identify themselves as two or more races. A comparison of Anchorage AK racial distribution with the Alaska and U.S. averages is shown in the graph below.

	Anchorage AK	Alaska	USA
Total:	288,000	731,545	328,239,523
Not Hispanic or Latino:	261,008	678,997	267,757,777
White alone	164,029	437,714	196,789,401
Black or African American alone	14,601	21,773	40,596,040
American Indian and Alaska Native alone	25,111	113,467	2,236,348
Asian alone	25,795	43,322	18,427,914
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	8,041	9,715	565,473
Some other race alone	225	2,096	839,270
Two or more races:	23,206	50,910	8,303,331
Two races including Some other race	210	672	312,842
Two races excluding Some other race, and three or more races	22,996	50,238	7,990,489
Hispanic or Latino:	26,992	52,548	60,481,746
White alone	16,360	32,057	39,686,000
Black or African American alone	606	778	1,393,631
American Indian and Alaska Native alone	445	2,077	610,988
Asian alone	181	356	209,070
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone	-	208	63,210
Some other race alone	6,265	10,506	15,513,283
Two or more races:	3,135	6,566	3,005,564
Two races including Some other race	650	1,919	1,353,333
Two races excluding Some other race, and three or more races	2,485	4,647	1,652,231

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Families in Anchorage AK

Marriage statistics in Anchorage AK

	Anchorage AK	Alaska	USA
Total:	228,797	578,225	267,720,772
Male:	115,780	301,975	130,629,205
Never married	44,326	113,828	48,481,154
Now married:	56,220	149,285	66,120,364
Married, spouse present	50,171	127,863	60,243,458
Married, spouse absent:	6,049	21,422	5,876,906
Separated	2,520	4,594	2,041,898
Other	3,529	16,828	3,835,008
Widowed	3,298	7,380	3,472,244
Divorced	11,936	31,482	12,555,443
Female:	113,017	276,250	137,091,567
Never married	35,069	78,558	42,291,512
Now married:	58,219	146,484	66,231,431
Married, spouse present	52,250	131,025	59,933,781
Married, spouse absent:	5,969	15,459	6,297,650
Separated	2,460	5,410	2,808,171
Other	3,509	10,049	3,489,479
Widowed	5,911	18,035	11,834,834
Divorced	13,818	33,173	16,733,790

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Anchorage AK Birth rate

In the last 12 months, a total of 6.2% of females have given birth in Anchorage AK. Remarkably, the females who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 19 make-up 0.0%, and those who gave birth between 45 and older is 1.1%. In Alaska this proportion is 1.0% and 1.9% respectively, and nationally it is 2.9% and 2.5%.

	Anchorage AK	Alaska	USA
Total:	69,784	167,312	76,879,571
Women who had a birth in the past 12 months:	4,356	10,502	3,877,882
15 to 19 years old	-	109	110,459
20 to 24 years old	77	1,198	597,750
25 to 29 years old	1,107	3,126	1,034,050
30 to 34 years old	1,595	2,897	1,141,393
35 to 39 years old	1,023	2,089	676,864
40 to 44 years old	507	879	219,595
45 to 50 years old	47	204	97,771
Women who did not have a birth in the past 12 months:	65,428	156,810	73,001,689
15 to 19 years old	7,867	20,556	10,339,412
20 to 24 years old	8,956	18,995	9,856,470
25 to 29 years old	11,527	25,441	10,381,420
30 to 34 years old	10,665	24,231	9,922,313
35 to 39 years old	9,350	21,609	10,159,355
40 to 44 years old	7,914	21,205	9,938,316
45 to 50 years old	9,149	24,773	12,404,403

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Anchorage AK people born abroad

You may also want to know how many people in Anchorage AK have a different culture and language. There are 0.0% of people in Anchorage AK who were not born in the United States, but chose Anchorage AK as their place of residence.

In Anchorage AK, 2.8% of people were born in Western Europe. From Eastern Europe came 4.8% of people, and Northern Europe gave 2.1% of people to Anchorage AK.

Those born in and moved from Asia account for 56.6% of Anchorage AK residents. Africa is the birthplace of 5.7%, Australia and New Zealand account for 0.0% of people. Central America, North America and South America gave 9.8%, 3.4% and 0.3% of people.

Below we have compared these data for you with averages for Alaska and the entire U.S.

	Anchorage AK	Alaska	USA
Total:	32,003	57,667	44,932,799
Europe:	3,263	7,878	4,665,173
Northern Europe:	688	1,471	911,519
Ireland	52	96	111,886
Denmark	-	49	31,872
Norway	74	170	20,143
Sweden	82	126	43,506
United Kingdom (inc. Crown Dependencies):	408	925	677,856
United Kingdom, excluding England and Scotland	254	394	335,503
England	100	430	291,089
Scotland	54	101	51,264
Other Northern Europe	72	105	26,256
Western Europe:	879	2,167	907,942
Austria	45	56	39,083
Belgium	-	30	32,323
France	123	319	171,452
Germany	572	1,420	537,691
Netherlands	83	204	82,603
Switzerland	56	138	42,958
Other Western Europe	-	-	1,832
Southern Europe:	168	477	719,214
Greece	-	176	119,571
Italy	142	223	314,867
Portugal	-	15	161,500
Azores Islands	-	-	22,420
Spain	18	49	116,077
Other Southern Europe	8	14	7,199
Eastern Europe:	1,528	3,716	2,117,473
Albania	-	12	94,856
Belarus	37	66	57,315
Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	14	104,612
Bulgaria	45	143	66,950
Croatia	4	23	37,044
Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia)	79	142	68,312
Hungary	-	16	64,852
Latvia	14	64	23,300
Lithuania	-	22	32,655
North Macedonia (Macedonia)	111	211	30,359
Moldova	71	309	46,388
Poland	94	200	404,107
Romania	65	117	167,751
Russia	681	1,436	392,422
Serbia	61	125	39,020
Ukraine	151	689	354,832
Other Eastern Europe	105	127	132,698
Europe, n.e.c.	-	47	9,025
Asia:	18,131	31,985	14,099,479
Eastern Asia:	3,664	5,777	4,241,673
China:	667	1,521	2,853,550
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan	537	1,282	2,250,230
Hong Kong	5	55	231,469
Taiwan	125	184	371,851
Japan	355	725	333,273
Korea	2,642	3,467	1,038,885
Other Eastern Asia	-	64	15,965
South Central Asia:	827	1,370	4,259,436
Afghanistan	-	10	132,160
Bangladesh	-	65	261,348
India	531	715	2,688,075
Iran	52	148	385,473
Kazakhstan	-	57	33,438
Nepal	90	112	166,651
Pakistan	93	130	398,399
Sri Lanka	16	18	51,695
Uzbekistan	-	40	65,126
Other South Central Asia	45	75	77,071
South Eastern Asia:	13,343	24,403	4,380,003
Burma	28	28	150,877
Cambodia	44	92	149,236
Indonesia	29	39	101,622
Laos	1,049	1,227	176,904
Malaysia	58	72	76,712
Philippines	9,645	19,425	2,045,248
Singapore	-	25	33,736
Thailand	2,128	2,532	260,820
Vietnam	345	946	1,383,779
Other South Eastern Asia	17	17	1,069
Western Asia:	284	378	1,159,593
Armenia	-	-	87,419
Iraq	-	-	249,670
Israel	-	16	132,477
Jordan	-	33	90,018
Kuwait	-	-	31,113
Lebanon	9	25	120,065
Saudi Arabia	-	-	76,840
Syria	-	-	92,514
Turkey	208	225	117,291
Yemen	-	-	58,627
Other Western Asia	67	79	103,559
Asia,n.e.c.	13	57	58,774
Africa:	1,812	2,536	2,475,118
Eastern Africa:	498	798	736,939
Eritrea	-	9	49,355
Ethiopia	67	167	256,032
Kenya	-	55	153,414
Somalia	252	337	114,607
Uganda	14	24	44,150
Zimbabwe	26	26	20,519
Other Eastern Africa	139	180	98,862
Middle Africa:	96	99	195,468
Cameroon	96	96	72,634
Congo	-	3	38,932
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire)	-	-	60,512
Other Middle Africa	-	-	23,390
Northern Africa:	245	362	380,995
Egypt	62	74	205,852
Morocco	-	-	77,431
Sudan	176	277	51,351
Other Northern Africa	7	11	46,361
Southern Africa:	31	90	115,742
South Africa	31	90	111,116
Other Southern Africa	-	-	4,626
Western Africa:	859	1,029	925,633
Cabo Verde	-	-	36,410
Ghana	75	117	199,163
Liberia	48	48	98,116
Nigeria	567	622	392,811
Senegal	-	13	30,828
Sierra Leone	72	72	45,506
Other Western Africa	97	157	122,799
Africa, n.e.c.	83	158	120,341
Oceania:	1,579	2,175	300,188
Australia and New Zealand Subregion:	96	304	128,018
Australia	55	210	98,969
Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion	41	94	29,049
Fiji	308	312	48,710
Micronesia	154	196	30,136
Oceania, n.e.c.	1,021	1,363	93,324
Americas:	7,218	13,093	23,392,841
Latin America:	6,125	10,427	22,588,239
Caribbean:	1,545	2,144	4,494,211
Bahamas	-	9	40,067
Barbados	8	8	52,279
Cuba	67	244	1,359,990
Dominica	148	148	36,372
Dominican Republic	961	1,187	1,169,420
Grenada	44	44	29,722
Haiti	81	127	701,688
Jamaica	26	120	772,215
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-	3	17,890
Trinidad and Tobago	107	133	212,798
West Indies	60	64	19,118
Other Caribbean	43	57	82,652
Central America:	3,139	5,902	14,714,249
Belize	34	85	44,364
Costa Rica	-	52	93,620
El Salvador	256	658	1,412,101
Guatemala	68	179	1,111,495
Honduras	39	144	745,838
Mexico	2,707	4,528	10,931,939
Nicaragua	24	210	257,343
Panama	11	46	101,076
Other Central America	-	-	16,473
South America:	1,441	2,381	3,379,779
Argentina	65	117	210,767
Bolivia	-	40	79,804
Brazil	31	173	502,104
Chile	-	26	93,950
Colombia	546	685	808,148
Ecuador	141	208	431,150
Guyana	-	80	253,847
Peru	446	562	446,063
Uruguay	9	40	48,900
Venezuela	154	192	465,235
Other South America	49	258	39,811
Northern America:	1,093	2,666	804,602
Canada	1,093	2,653	797,158
Other Northern America	-	13	7,444

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Anchorage AK Crime Rates 2001-2010

	Violent crime	Property crime	Larceny-theft	Motor vehicle theft
2010	2,432	10,214	8,178	813
2009	2,488	10,316	7,835	868
2008	2,647	9,211	7,254	766
2007	2,405	11,107	8,397	1,256
2006	2,592	11,721	8,543	1,445
2005	2,031	11,365	8,248	1,334
2004	2,164	9,901	7,354	1,024
2003	1,744	11,706	9,091	1,197
2002	1,721	11,949	9,255	1,173
2001	1,748	11,466	8,648	1,212

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Residential fires in Anchorage AK 2005-2009

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Residential Fires	10	206	155	234	272
Non Residential Fires	0	43	37	33	51
Vehicle Fires	5	145	191	121	128
Outdoor Fires	1	31	25	10	485
Other Fire	1	25	10	13	23

Causes of residential building fires in Anchorage AK

	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Intentional	1	20	6	14	12
Playing with heat source	0	3	2	4	2
Cooking	0	1	0	54	85
Heating	0	0	0	5	7
Smoking	1	38	35	23	22
Electrical malfunction	1	0	0	0	0
Open flame	0	9	4	7	10
Natural	7	135	107	123	133
Exposure	0	0	1	4	1

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