690 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.2% since 2020)
7,628 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.
1 active community water system list Yakutat City and Borough in the area they serve, reporting 740 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| YAKUTAT PWS groundwater · tribal · AK2130172 | 740 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 Yakutat City and Borough — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
1 school district has its office in Yakutat City and Borough. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $28,500 per student, plus $121,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $917,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.4 million state, $463,000 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 Yakutat City and Borough about $1.4 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 Yakutat City and Borough: 7 in good condition, 6 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:OCEAN CAPE RD over ANKAU SLOUGH · built 1961 | 457 vehicles a day |
| DANGEROUS RIVER RD over DANGEROUS RIVER · built 1976 | 40 vehicles a day |
| PUBLIC ROAD over W.F. SITUK · built 1985 | 0 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.4 million of work in Yakutat City and Borough in fiscal 2025, about $15,639 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 Yakutat City and 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 Yakutat City and Borough built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Alaska: the state government and every county in Alaska.
Nearby counties: Skagway Municipality (178 mi) · Haines Borough (179 mi) · Copper River Census Area (184 mi) · Hoonah-Angoon Census Area (192 mi) · Chugach Census Area (202 mi) · Juneau City and Borough (243 mi).