Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska: public records at a glance

How Northwest Arctic Borough compares — against the other counties in Alaska

• 7,134 — people: 14th highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• $46,368 — spending per student in its school districts: 3rd highest of 29 Alaska counties.
• 67.8 years — life expectancy: 21st highest of 23 Alaska counties.
• 16.6% — share of adults under 65 without health insurance: 14th highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• 23.0% — child poverty: 9th highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• 88.3% — households with broadband internet: 11th highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• $78,619 — median household income: 17th highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• $33,386 — federal grant dollars per resident: 2nd highest of 30 Alaska counties.
• $9.9 million — expected yearly losses from natural hazards: 11th highest of 30 Alaska counties.

“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.

Drinking water — public water systems serving Northwest Arctic Borough

11 active community water systems list Northwest Arctic Borough in the area they serve, reporting 7,620 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).

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.

The jail — people held in the county jail

No county jail figure in the national data for Northwest Arctic Borough — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.

Public schools — district budgets, fiscal 2023

1 school district has its office in Northwest Arctic Borough. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.

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.

Health, money and internet at home — Northwest Arctic Borough beside Alaska

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.

Disaster risk — FEMA's National Risk Index

Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Northwest Arctic Borough about $9.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.

The costliest hazards here

Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.

Bridges — condition of every public bridge, 2025

7 bridges in Northwest Arctic Borough: 2 in good condition, 4 fair, and 1 poor (14.3%). “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.

Busiest bridges rated poor

Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.

Federal grants — the money that came in, and what's open now

Federal grants paid for $260.2 million of work in Northwest Arctic Borough in fiscal 2025, about $33,386 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.

Open now: federal grants county governments can apply for

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.

Voting

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.

Not here yet

The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Northwest Arctic 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 Northwest Arctic Borough built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.

More of Alaska: the state government and every county in Alaska.

Nearby counties: Nome Census Area (190 mi) · North Slope Borough (244 mi) · Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (254 mi) · Kusilvak Census Area (337 mi) · Denali Borough (354 mi) · Fairbanks North Star Borough (399 mi).