North Slope Borough, Alaska

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North Slope Borough is a borough located largely in the North Slope region of the state of Alaska, USA. As of 2000, the population is 7,385. The borough seat is Barrow.

Contents

1 Geography

1.1 Adjacent boroughs and census areas

2 Demographics
3 Cities and towns

Geography

The borough has a total area of 245,436 km² (94,763 mi²). 230,035 km² (88,817 mi²) of it is land and 15,399 km² (5,946 mi²) of it (6.27%) is water.

The North Slope Borough is the largest county-level political subdivision in the United States by area. Although the adjacent Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area is larger in area, it has no borough-level government. The area is roughly the same size as the U.S. state of Michigan.

Adjacent boroughs and census areas

Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska - southeast
Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska - southwest

Also shares eastern border with the Yukon Territory, Canada.

Demographics

As of the census² of 2000, there were 7,385 people, 2,109 households, and 1,524 families residing in the borough. The population density was 0/km² (0/mi²). There were 2,538 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (0/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough was 17.09% White, 0.72% Black or African American, 68.38% Native American, mostly Inuit, 5.92% Asian, 0.84% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 6.55% from two or more races. 2.37% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 2,109 households out of which 48.10% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.3% were married couples living together, 18.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.70% were non-families. 21.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.45 and the average family size was 4.05.

In the borough the population was spread out with 38.2% under the age of 18, 9.50% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 18.10% from 45 to 64, and 4.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 27 years. For every 100 females there were 112.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 113.90 males.

Cities and towns

	State of Alaska
Capital	Juneau
Regions	Aleutian Islands \| Bush Alaska \| Interior \| Kenai Peninsula \| Mat-Su Valley \| North Slope \| Southcentral \| Southeast \| Southwest \| Tanana Valley \| Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
Largest cities	Anchorage \| Barrow \| Bethel \| Fairbanks \| Homer \| Juneau \| Kenai \| Ketchikan \| Kodiak \| Kotzebue \| Nome \| Palmer \| Petersburg \| Seward \| Sitka \| Unalaska \| Valdez \| Wasilla
Boroughs	Aleutians East \| Anchorage \| Bristol Bay \| Denali \| Fairbanks North Star \| Haines \| Juneau \| Kenai Peninsula \| Ketchikan Gateway \| Kodiak Island \| Lake and Peninsula \| Matanuska-Susitna \| North Slope \| Northwest Arctic \| Sitka \| Yakutat
Census areas	Aleutians West \| Bethel \| Dillingham \| Nome \| Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan \| Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon \| Southeast Fairbanks \| Valdez-Cordova \| Wade Hampton \| Wrangell-Petersburg \| Yukon-Koyukuk \| *see also* Unorganized Borough

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