4,642 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.1% since 2020)
18,336 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.
11 active community water systems list Dillingham Census Area in the area they serve, reporting 5,155 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DILLINGHAM WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260197 | 2,419 served |
| TOGIAK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260325 | 910 served |
| NEW STUYAHOK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260367 | 566 served |
| BBAHC - KANAKANAK HOSPITAL groundwater · tribal · AK2261282 | 305 served |
| MANOKOTAK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260090 | 293 served |
| MANOKOTAK HEIGHTS W/S groundwater · tribal · AK2262246 | 215 served |
| KOLIGANEK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260040 | 170 served |
| CLARKS POINT WATER SYSTEM groundwater · tribal · AK2260202 | 128 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 Dillingham Census Area — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
2 school districts have their office in Dillingham Census Area. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $26.8 million — $26.6 million to run schools, about $42,157 per student, plus $200,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $958,000 local (mostly property tax), $11.9 million state, $12 million federal.
Spent $15.7 million — $14.7 million to run schools, about $35,076 per student, plus $206,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $4.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 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 Dillingham Census Area about $6.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
3 bridges in Dillingham Census Area: 1 in good condition, 0 fair, and 2 poor (66.7%). “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.
| IRR:AIRPORT ROAD over UNNAMED CREEK KOLIGANEK · built 1980 | 50 vehicles a day |
| IRR:KOLGNK DUMP RD over UNNAMED CREEK · 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 $41.2 million of work in Dillingham Census Area in fiscal 2025, about $8,482 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 Dillingham Census Area 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 Dillingham Census Area built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Alaska: the state government and every county in Alaska.
Nearby counties: Bristol Bay Borough (72 mi) · Bethel Census Area (116 mi) · Lake and Peninsula Borough (118 mi) · Kodiak Island Borough (198 mi) · Kenai Peninsula Borough (216 mi) · Kusilvak Census Area (256 mi).