1,621 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.4% since 2020)
12,641 square miles of land · 0 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.
2 active community water systems list Denali Borough in the area they serve, reporting 733 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CLEAR SPACE FORCE STATION MAIN groundwater · federal · AK2390756 | 433 served |
| DENALI - ROCK CREEK HQ. groundwater · federal · AK2390586 | 300 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 Denali Borough — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
1 school district has its office in Denali Borough. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $11.6 million — $10.3 million to run schools, about $11,280 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $681,000 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Denali Borough about $11.2 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.
27 bridges in Denali Borough: 5 in good condition, 21 fair, and 1 poor (3.7%). “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.
| PARKS HIGHWAY over NENANA RIVER AT REX · built 1963 | 910 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.1 million of work in Denali Borough in fiscal 2025, about $2,506 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 Denali 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 Denali Borough built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Alaska: the state government and every county in Alaska.
Nearby counties: Matanuska-Susitna Borough (99 mi) · Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (126 mi) · Fairbanks North Star Borough (128 mi) · Anchorage Municipality (175 mi) · Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (209 mi) · Copper River Census Area (219 mi).