Jury Pool Profile
Sitka Borough, Alaska
- Population
- 8,393
- Median household income
- $101,207
- Unemployment
- 3.2%
Who sits on a jury?
Race & ethnicity
- White alone 5,163 61.5%
- Black or African American alone 31 0.4%
- Asian alone 623 7.4%
- American Indian / Alaska Native alone 748 8.9%
- Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander alone 74 0.9%
- Some other race alone 147 1.8%
- Two or more races 1,607 19.1%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 575 6.9%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Age distribution
Median age 39.6
- Under 18 1,647 19.6%
- 18–24 645 7.7%
- 25–44 2,436 29.0%
- 45–64 2,216 26.4%
- 65 and over 1,449 17.3%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Economic context
Local economy
- Unemployment (12-mo)
- 3.2%
- -1.51 pp vs. state
- County GDP
- $734.7M
- 1.03% of state
- Avg. annual pay
- $61,555
- Establishments
- 413
U.S. BLS 2026M02 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2024
Top employment sectors
Average annual employment by supersector
- Education & health services 1,286 28.7%
- Trade, transportation & utilities 913 20.4%
- Leisure & hospitality 654 14.6%
- Public administration 530 11.8%
- Manufacturing 445 9.9%
- Construction 194 4.3%
- Professional & business services 175 3.9%
- Other services 104 2.3%
- Financial activities 83 1.9%
- Natural resources & mining 67 1.5%
- Information 29 0.6%
BLS QCEW 2024
Housing
- Home ownership
- 61.7%
- Median gross rent
- $1,350
- Owner-occupied
- 2,160
- Renter-occupied
- 1,343
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Languages, households, faith & health
Languages spoken at home
87.2% speak only English at home
- Spanish 344 4.3%
- Tagalog 313 3.9%
- Other Asian/Pacific 159 2.0%
- Other 113 1.4%
- Other Indo-European 36 0.4%
- German 24 0.3%
- Slavic languages 17 0.2%
- Chinese 10 0.1%
- French (incl. Cajun) 7 0.1%
- Arabic 5 0.1%
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Household composition
- Households
- 3,503
- Family households
- 2,241
- 64.0% of households
- Married w/ children
- 1,767
- Single-mother households
- 137
- Veterans
- 505
- 7.9% of civilians 18+
U.S. Census ACS 2023
Religious composition
27.7% overall adherence rate
- Evangelical Protestant 816 9.6%
- Catholic 600 7.1%
- Mainline Protestant 434 5.1%
- Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 340 4.0%
- Orthodox 150 1.8%
US Religion Census 2020
Health & education
- Health insured
- 88.4%
- With a disability
- 17.1%
- Bachelor's or higher
- 34.4%
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
- 0
- 0 per 100k drivers
- Fatal crashes
- 0
NHTSA FARS 2023