Jury Pool Profile
Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
- Population
- 7,611
- Median household income
- $81,298
- Unemployment
- 10.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 795 10.4%
- Black or African American alone 43 0.6%
- Asian alone 191 2.5%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 6,112 80.3%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 21 0.3%
- Some other race alone 39 0.5%
- Two or more races 410 5.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 159 2.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 28.3
- Under 18 2,861 37.6%
- 18–24 666 8.8%
- 25–44 2,000 26.3%
- 45–64 1,445 19.0%
- 65 and over 639 8.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 10.2%
- +5.49 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $743.5M
- 1.04% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $89,651
- Establishments
- 148
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Public administration 442 14.7%
- Education & health services 361 12.0%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 336 11.2%
- Leisure & hospitality 259 8.6%
- Construction 100 3.3%
- Professional & business services 52 1.7%
- Financial activities 39 1.3%
- Information 36 1.2%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 60.5%
- Median gross rent
- $1,336
- Owner-occupied
- 1,099
- Renter-occupied
- 718
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
73.7% speak only English at home
- Other 1,486 21.8%
- Tagalog 153 2.2%
- Spanish 92 1.3%
- Other Asian/Pacific 31 0.5%
- Korean 10 0.1%
- Vietnamese 10 0.1%
- German 4 0.1%
- Other Indo-European 4 0.1%
- Slavic languages 3 0.0%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 1,817
- Family households
- 1,377
- 75.8% of households
- Married w/ children
- 724
- Single-mother households
- 212
- Veterans
- 258
- 5.4% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
18.2% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 591 7.6%
- Mainline Protestant 446 5.7%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 212 2.7%
- Catholic 170 2.2%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 81.2%
- With a disability
- 9.6%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 12.4%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Court infrastructure
Court infrastructure
- Trial court
- 2nd Judicial District Superior Court
- Judges
- 1 (Superior Court judges per district (general civil + criminal jurisdiction); District Court judges (limited jurisdiction) separate; vintage 2026 courts.alaska.gov)
- Court seats
- Kotzebue, Nome, Utqiaġvik
This judicial district spans multiple boroughs.
Traffic safety context
Alaska statewide totals, 2023 — not county-specific
- Traffic fatalities
- 0
- 0 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 0
NHTSA FARS 2023