Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska: Realigning Affluent Suburb county. In 2024, voted R+19%. Republican peak: R+51 in 2000.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+19MIT Election Lab
- Political typology
- Realigning Affluent SuburbAkashic typology
- Population
- 13,7682024 5-year
- Median household income
- $92,8852024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 0.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+25 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51 in 2000MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Madison County, MS · similarity 0.96
2024 results by precinct
2024 precinct map of Ketchikan Gateway BoroughPrecinct-level 2024 presidential results for Ketchikan Gateway Borough, with each precinct boundary colored by Democratic-vs-Republican margin.
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Harris +50Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1876–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
| Year | Margin (D minus R) |
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| 1876 | No data |
| 1880 | No data |
| 1884 | No data |
| 1888 | No data |
| 1892 | No data |
| 1896 | No data |
| 1900 | No data |
| 1904 | No data |
| 1908 | No data |
| 1912 | No data |
| 1916 | No data |
| 1920 | No data |
| 1924 | No data |
| 1928 | No data |
| 1932 | No data |
| 1936 | No data |
| 1940 | No data |
| 1944 | No data |
| 1948 | No data |
| 1952 | No data |
| 1956 | No data |
| 1960 | −5.0% |
| 1964 | +24.9% |
| 1968 | −11.8% |
| 1972 | −23.3% |
| 1976 | −25.2% |
| 1980 | −31.1% |
| 1984 | −25.9% |
| 1988 | −14.4% |
| 1992 | −6.2% |
| 1996 | −41.0% |
| 2000 | −51.0% |
| 2004 | −37.1% |
| 2008 | −20.5% |
| 2012 | −17.0% |
| 2016 | −22.5% |
| 2020 | −20.8% |
| 2024 | −18.6% |
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
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| R | 2,525 | 3,755 | 6,605 | ||
| R | 2,604 | 4,049 | 6,940 | ||
| R | 2,076 | 3,537 | 6,500 | ||
| R | 2,263 | 3,267 | 5,906 | ||
| R | 2,494 | 3,832 | 6,526 | ||
| R | 1,871 | 4,231 | 6,360 | ||
| R | 1,284 | 4,681 | 6,656 | ||
| R | 1,471 | 4,180 | 6,610 | ||
| R | 2,050 | 2,468 | 6,707 | ||
| R | 2,217 | 2,994 | 5,405 | ||
| R | 2,036 | 3,510 | 5,697 | ||
| R | 1,323 | 2,825 | 4,828 | ||
| R | 1,423 | 2,437 | 4,022 | ||
| R | 1,362 | 2,264 | 3,874 | ||
| R | 1,345 | 1,764 | 3,562 | ||
| D | 2,275 | 1,367 | 3,642 | ||
| R | 1,729 | 1,911 | 3,640 | ||
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Demographics
2024 ACS
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
German
14.0%
English
12.1%
Irish
10.9%
Scottish
3.8%
American
2.4%
French
2.1%
Italian
1.9%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so these shares can total more than 100%. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
2024 ACS
Age distribution by sex
Median age: 41.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally
Male
Age
Female
85+
75–84
65–74
55–64
45–54
35–44
25–34
18–24
5–17
<5
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Median household income
Inflation-adjusted dollars
$92,885
Ketchikan Gateway Borough ranks in the top 10% of US counties.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough$92,885
Alaska$92,788
United States$80,734
Ketchikan Gateway Borough ranks in the top 10% of US counties by median household income.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Poverty rate
All persons below federal poverty line
8.7%
Child poverty is below the national average.
Children under 186.7%
Working age (18–64)9.5%
Seniors (65+)5.6%
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.
2024 ACS
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
89.4%
speak English only
Asian & Pacific Islander6.3%
Spanish2.6%
Other Indo-European0.9%
Other languages0.8%
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
2020 religion census
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 68.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, accessible only by air or sea, anchors its economy in commercial fishing, tourism, and a legacy timber industry — a resource-dependent profile that has correlated with Republican margins exceeding 15 points in recent presidential cycles.
Once reliably Republican — a margin of fifty-one points in 2000 at its widest — Ketchikan Gateway Borough has trended Democratic. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved two points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was nineteen points.
A median household income of $92,885 — among the higher at this geographic scale — and a population of 13,768 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Madison County and Wrangell City and Borough.
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Frequently asked questions
How did Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska vote in 2024?
In 2024, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska voted Republican by 18.6 points (R+19), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 6,605 votes cast, 2,525 went Democratic and 3,755 went Republican.
What is Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska's political typology?
Akashic places Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska in the "Realigning Affluent Suburb" typology — College-educated, affluent suburbs — the one bloc moving toward the Democratic Party. The typology is a data-driven cluster built from vote share, vote swing, race and ethnicity, income, language spoken at home, religion, and ancestry. Across 38 elections in the dataset, the county has voted Democratic 1 times, Republican 16 times, and other 0 times.
When did Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska?
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska has a population of 13,768 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska?
Median household income in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska is $92,885 — above the national median of $80,734. The Alaska state median is $92,788.
What is the political history of Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 16 went Republican. The county's typology — "Realigning Affluent Suburb" — captures where that record, its demographics, and its recent swing place it among American communities.