3,632 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.0% since 2020)
6,986 square miles of land · 1 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
6 active community water systems list Aleutians East Borough in the area they serve, reporting 2,532 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| KING COVE groundwater · tribal · AK2260244 | 972 served |
| SAND POINT WATER SYSTEM surface water · tribal · AK2260294 | 830 served |
| FALSE PASS TREATMENT PLANT surface water · tribal · AK2262199 | 393 served |
| COLD BAY groundwater · local government · AK2260414 | 182 served |
| AKUTAN surface water · tribal · AK2260252 | 95 served |
| NELSON LAGOON WATER SYSTEM surface water · tribal · AK2260804 | 60 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
No county jail figure in the national data for Aleutians East Borough — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
1 school district has its office in Aleutians East Borough. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.7 million — $10.5 million to run schools, about $49,607 per student. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $5.8 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.9 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Aleutians East Borough about $4.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
16 bridges in Aleutians East Borough: 5 in good condition, 8 fair, and 3 poor (18.8%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| IRR: DOCK ROAD over KING COVE ACCESS BRIDGE · built 1995 | 150 vehicles a day |
| SAND POINT ROAD over HUMBOLT SLOUGH · built 1998 | 75 vehicles a day |
| MARINE HWY ROUTE over COLD BAY DOCK · built 1980 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $19.8 million of work in Aleutians East Borough in fiscal 2025, about $5,782 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Alaska are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Aleutians East Borough come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Aleutians East Borough built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lake and Peninsula Borough (295 mi) · Bristol Bay Borough (311 mi) · Dillingham Census Area (331 mi) · Kodiak Island Borough (360 mi) · Bethel Census Area (399 mi) · Kusilvak Census Area (488 mi).