Jury Pool Profile
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
- Population
- 13,870
- Median household income
- $89,155
- Unemployment
- 4.5%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 8,812 63.5%
- Black or African American alone 60 0.4%
- Asian alone 1,242 9.0%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 1,820 13.1%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 28 0.2%
- Some other race alone 154 1.1%
- Two or more races 1,754 12.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 730 5.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 40.8
- Under 18 2,880 20.8%
- 18–24 1,005 7.2%
- 25–44 3,901 28.1%
- 45–64 3,686 26.6%
- 65 and over 2,398 17.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 4.5%
- -0.2 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $1.2B
- 1.73% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $62,614
- Establishments
- 623
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Trade, transportation & utilities 1,925 26.5%
- Education & health services 1,394 19.2%
- Public administration 1,366 18.8%
- Leisure & hospitality 1,032 14.2%
- Manufacturing 406 5.6%
- Financial activities 326 4.5%
- Construction 291 4.0%
- Professional & business services 272 3.7%
- Other services 106 1.5%
- Natural resources & mining 97 1.3%
- Information 59 0.8%
- Unclassified 3 0.0%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 67.3%
- Median gross rent
- $1,388
- Owner-occupied
- 3,785
- Renter-occupied
- 1,836
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
88.9% speak only English at home
- Tagalog 867 6.6%
- Spanish 289 2.2%
- Other 96 0.7%
- Other Indo-European 82 0.6%
- Other Asian/Pacific 34 0.3%
- French (incl. Cajun) 26 0.2%
- German 20 0.2%
- Vietnamese 17 0.1%
- Chinese 12 0.1%
- Korean 8 0.1%
- Arabic 8 0.1%
- Slavic languages 6 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 5,621
- Family households
- 3,550
- 63.2% of households
- Married w/ children
- 2,619
- Single-mother households
- 286
- Veterans
- 946
- 8.8% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
31.4% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 2,077 14.9%
- Catholic 1,300 9.3%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 589 4.2%
- Mainline Protestant 419 3.0%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 90.5%
- With a disability
- 13.7%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 27.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 1st Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 4 (Superior Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate; vintage 2026 courts.alaska.gov)
- Court seats
- ( Consolidated city-borough ), Hoonah, Ketchikan, Klawock, Petersburg
This judicial district spans multiple boroughs.
Traffic safety context
Alaska statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 1
- 9.1 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 1
NHTSA FARS 2023