289,600 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.4% since 2020)
1,707 square miles of land · 170 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.
68 active community water systems list Anchorage Municipality in the area they serve, reporting 290,125 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MOA MUNICIPALITY OF ANCHORAGE surface water · local government · AK2210906 | 221,351 served |
| JBER-ELMENDORF buys surface water · federal · AK2211423 | 30,003 served |
| DOYON UTILITIES JBER - RICHARDSON surface water · private · AK2212039 | 20,284 served |
| GIRDWOOD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AK2212021 | 2,625 served |
| OW DIMOND ESTATES TRAILER COURT groundwater · private · AK2211075 | 1,395 served |
| SOUTHWOOD MANOR TC groundwater · private · AK2211677 | 1,005 served |
| PENLAND PARK MHP buys surface water · private · AK2210419 | 993 served |
| MANOOGS ISLE MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · AK2218630 | 935 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 Anchorage Municipality — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
3 school districts have their office in Anchorage Municipality. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $786.2 million — $727.5 million to run schools, about $16,636 per student, plus $52.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $237.6 million local (mostly property tax), $423 million state, $179.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $169.3 million.
Spent $10 million — $8.7 million to run schools, about $13,706 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $717,000 local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $1.5 million federal.
Spent $2.2 million — $2.2 million to run schools, about $135,938 per student. Money in: $180,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $151,000 federal.
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: Relatively High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Anchorage Municipality about $366.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
134 bridges in Anchorage Municipality: 66 in good condition, 68 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “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.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $506.4 million of work in Anchorage Municipality in fiscal 2025, about $1,739 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 Anchorage Municipality 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 Anchorage Municipality built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Alaska: the state government and every county in Alaska.
Nearby counties: Matanuska-Susitna Borough (76 mi) · Chugach Census Area (113 mi) · Kenai Peninsula Borough (115 mi) · Denali Borough (175 mi) · Copper River Census Area (188 mi) · Fairbanks North Star Borough (258 mi).