These files contain individual graphs tracking population dynamics in 104 individual Arctic/Subarctic Alaska communities, over the years from 1990 to 2022. The numerical data underlying these graphs have been archived separately with the Arctic Data Center: Hamilton, L.C. 2023. “Annual population, natural increase and net migration for rural Alaska communities 1990–2022.” Dataset archived with the NSF Arctic Data Center. https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A28K74Z2B The purpose of this "graphical library" is to provide visualizations of 1990-2022 population change for each town or village in a format that is simple to download, share, and apply to other purposes such as planning, proposals or case studies. The files (identical pdf and PowerPoint versions) include a brief rationale, illustration of the numerical database organization, description of sources, citations and links to published articles, and explanation of the graphical style. These notes are followed by 104 individual graphs, one per slide, organized by boroughs or census areas.

The Arctic region Norwegian Bay saw a summer sea ice loss of some **** percent per decade between 1979 and 2019 – the largest loss recorded amongst all Arctic regions. At the same time, this region also featured the second-lowest polar bear population as of 2021, with about *** bears.

We defined permafrost settlements as settlements located within the permafrost extent, as modelled by Obu et al. (2019). The permafrost extent is based on the modeled temperature at the top of the permafrost(TTOP model) for the period 2000-–2016. The permafrost extent is available at the circum-Arctic scale, with a resolution of 1 km2.The permafrost zones are defined as follows: continuous (90-–100% area coverage), discontinuous (50–-90% area coverage), and sporadic (0-–50% area coverage).

To estimate the future of permafrost settlements, we used projected permafrost extents modeled by Hjort et al. (2018) using Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 for the period 2041–2060. The model is binary and uses 30 arc-second grid cells (1 km2) to determine if permafrost is present or absent. We used the consensus index (Ic), that which classifies future permafrost extent into hazard zones (1, low; 2, medium; and 3, high hazard zones). When defining hazard zones, the consensus index considers the relative increase of the active layer thickness, ground ice content, ground temperature, permafrost thaw potential, surface properties (sediment/bedrock), fine-grained sediment content, frost susceptibility of ground material, and slope gradient.

Some estimates made with linear interpolation technique for 509 settlements using 2002 census data. (Data of settlements over 500 inhabitants inside AHDR's definition on Arctic -77 estimates for 2002)

Detailed information about the methods can be found in the publication to which this dataset is a supplement.

Citation

In order to use these data, you must cite this data set with the following citation:

Wang, Shinan, & Ramage, Justine. (2021). Population in the Arctic Circumpolar Permafrost Region at settlement level (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4529610

About this dataset

Context

This list ranks the 10 cities in the Northwest Arctic Borough, AK by Multi-Racial White population, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. It also highlights population changes in each cities over the past five years.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, including:

• 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Variables / Data Columns

• Rank by Multi-Racial White Population: This column displays the rank of cities in the Northwest Arctic Borough, AK by their Multi-Racial White population, using the most recent ACS data available.
• cities: The cities for which the rank is shown in the previous column.
• Multi-Racial White Population: The Multi-Racial White population of the cities is shown in this column.
• % of Total cities Population: This shows what percentage of the total cities population identifies as Multi-Racial White. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• % of Total Northwest Arctic Borough Multi-Racial White Population: This tells us how much of the entire Northwest Arctic Borough, AK Multi-Racial White population lives in that cities. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• 5 Year Rank Trend: TThis column displays the rank trend across the last 5 years.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

About this dataset

Context

This list ranks the 10 cities in the Northwest Arctic Borough, AK by Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) population, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. It also highlights population changes in each cities over the past five years.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates, including:

• 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2016-2020 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates
• 2015-2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Variables / Data Columns

• Rank by Pacific Islander Population: This column displays the rank of cities in the Northwest Arctic Borough, AK by their Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) population, using the most recent ACS data available.
• cities: The cities for which the rank is shown in the previous column.
• Pacific Islander Population: The Pacific Islander population of the cities is shown in this column.
• % of Total cities Population: This shows what percentage of the total cities population identifies as Pacific Islander. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• % of Total Northwest Arctic Borough Pacific Islander Population: This tells us how much of the entire Northwest Arctic Borough, AK Pacific Islander population lives in that cities. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.
• 5 Year Rank Trend: TThis column displays the rank trend across the last 5 years.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

On insular Newfoundland, the Arctic Hare reaches the southernmost limit of their distribution and are typically found in mountainous areas where elevation and climate have created an arctic-like landscape therefore making it an important herbivore species within the Tundra/Barrens ecosystem. A quadrat-based survey is being used to track the park population of Arctic hare during winter, in both low and high quality hare habitats. Eight permanent plots are sampled every 2-3 years (weather dependent) using snowmobiles equipped with GPS. The number of individuals observed in each quadrat is recorded.

Contains a list of Arctic communities suitable for providing context in other geospatial data visualizations. Dataset is limited to communities greater than or equal to 55 degrees north latitude, with populations greater than or equal to 10,000 as of 2022, except for Alaska communities which allow populations as small as 500. The intent of this dataset is to provide intuitive landmarks that help with interpretation of other geospatial datasets. This dataset contains minimal fields: community name, two-letter country abbreviation, latitude and longitude geometry, estimated population as of 2022, and Geonames identifier. This dataset is visualized on the Permafrost Discovery Gateway (https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Imagery-Viewer), an online scientific gateway that makes information of changing permafrost conditions throughout the Arctic available by providing access to very high resolution satellite data products and new visualization tools that will allow exploration and discovery for researchers, educators, and the public at large.

Arctic demography is commonly viewed on a large scale, across entire regions such as states, counties or boroughs. The data archived here contain annual time series for each of 43 Arctic Alaska towns and villages. Variables include annual estimates of population, natural increase (births minus deaths), and net migration (inmigration minus outmigration) for each place. Graphics depicting community population dynamics from 1990 to 2016 have been published online in connection with this research, and show that seemingly comparable places even within one borough can take widely divergent paths. Birth rates generally exceed death rates, although both are high. Year-to-year and place-to-place variations are dominated not by natural increase, but by differences in net migration. Population changes influence demand for resources such as water, electricity, fuel, and capital improvements, and probably for subsistence resources as well. Migration rates provide sensitive indicators that integrate diverse internal and external pressures. Recent analyses used these data to test for evidence of "climigration," or enhanced outmigration from places facing serious threats from climate-linked erosion. The data also provide information for comparative studies involving other far Northern regions; and for detecting possible impacts from economic events such as the 2008 recession. Example publications showing use of these data, with more background and sources, include: Hamilton, L.C., K. Saito, P.A. Loring, R.B. Lammers & H.P. Huntington. 2016. “Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska.” Population and Environment 38(2):115–133. doi: 10.1007/s11111-016-0259-6 Hamilton, L.C., D.M. White, R.B. Lammers & G. Myerchin. 2012. “Population, climate and electricity use in the Arctic: Integrated analysis of Alaska community data.” Population and Environment 33(4):269–283. doi: 10.1007/s11111-011-0145-1

The dataset, provided both in comma-separated values (.csv) and the more informative Stata (.dta) format, contains place/year demographic data on more than 300 rural Alaska communities annually for 1990 to 2022 -- about 10,000 place/years. For each of the available place/years, the data include population estimates from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development or (in Census years) from the US Census. For a subset consisting of 104 northern or western Alaska (Arctic/subarctic) towns and villages, the dataset also contains yearly estimates of natural increase (births minus deaths) and net migration (population minus last year's population plus natural increase). Natural increase was calculated from birth and death counts provided confidentially to researchers by the Alaska Health Analytics and Vital Records Section (HAVRS). By agreement with HAVRS, the community-level birth and death counts are not available for publication. Population, natural increase, and net migration estimates reflect mid-year values, or change over the past fiscal rather than calendar year. For example, the natural increase value for a community in 2020 is based on births and deaths of residents from July 1, 2019 to June 31, 2020. We emphasize that all values here are best estimates, based on records of the Alaska government organizations. The dataset contains 19 variables: placename Place name (string) placenum Place name (numeric) placefips Place FIPS code year Year borough Borough name boroughfips Borough FIPS code latitude Latitude (decimal, - denotes S) longitude Longitude (decimal, - denotes W) town Village {0:pop2020<2,000} or town {1:pop2020>2,000} village104 104 selected Arctic/rural communities {0,1} arctic43 43 Arctic communities {0,1}, Hamilton et al. 2016 north37 37 Northern Alaska communities {0,1), Hamilton et al. 2016 pop Population (2022 data) cpopP Change in population, percent natinc Natural increase: births-deaths natincP Natural increase, percent netmig Net migration estimate netmigP Net migration, percent nipop Population without migration Three of these variables flag particular subsets of communities. The first two subsets (43 or 37 places) were analyzed in earlier publications, so the flags might be useful for replications or comparisons. The third subset (104 places) is a newer, expanded group of Arctic/subarctic towns and villages for which natural increase and net migration estimates are now available. The flag variables are: If arctic43 = 1 Subset consisting of 43 Arctic towns and villages, previously studied in three published articles: 1. Hamilton, L.C. & A.M. Mitiguy. 2009. “Visualizing population dynamics of Alaska’s Arctic communities.” Arctic 62(4):393–398. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic170 2. Hamilton, L.C., D.M. White, R.B. Lammers & G. Myerchin. 2012. “Population, climate and electricity use in the Arctic: Integrated analysis of Alaska community data.” Population and Environment 33(4):269–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-011-0145-1 3. Hamilton, L.C., K. Saito, P.A. Loring, R.B. Lammers & H.P. Huntington. 2016. “Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska.” Population and Environment 38(2):115–133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-016-0259-6 If north37 = 1 Subset consisting of 37 northern Alaska towns and villages, previously analyzed for comparison with Nunavut and Greenland in a paper on demographics of the Inuit Arctic: 4. Hamilton, L.C., J. Wirsing & K. Saito. 2018. “Demographic variation and change in the Inuit Arctic.” Environmental Research Letters 13:11507. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae7ef If village104 = 1 Expanded group consisting of 104 communities, including all those in the arctic43 and north37 subsets. This group includes most rural Arctic/subarctic communities that had reasonably complete, continuous data, and 2018 populations of at least 100 people. These data were developed by updating older work and drawing in 61 additional towns or villages, as part of the NSF-supported Arctic Village Dynamics project (OPP-1822424).

Graph and download economic data for Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK (B03002012E002188) from 2009 to 2023 about Northwest Arctic Borough, AK; AK; latino; hispanic; estimate; persons; 5-year; population; and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Population Estimate, Total, Not Hispanic or Latino, Two or More Races, Two Races Excluding Some Other Race, and Three or More Races (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK (B03002011E002188) from 2009 to 2023 about Northwest Arctic Borough, AK; AK; non-hispanic; estimate; persons; 5-year; population; and USA.

Summer Sea Ice Cover from 1979 - 2014. Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center: https://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02202_ice_conc_cdr/ Polar Bear data from web map by bflanagan_tech:Data showing the current 19 Polar Bear populations and their trends (2009 data)Data projected in WGS84 (originally WGS 1984 North Pole LAEA Alaska)Data sourced from Environment Canada for the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment

This archived Paleoclimatology Study is available from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), under the World Data Service (WDS) for Paleoclimatology. The associated NCEI study type is Paleoceanography. The data include parameters of paleoceanography with a geographic location of Arctic Ocean. The time period coverage is from 710000 to -51 in calendar years before present (BP). See metadata information for parameter and study location details. Please cite this study when using the data.

http://geo.abds.is/geonetwork/srv/eng//resources.get?uuid=59d822e4-56ce-453c-b98d-40207a2e9eec&fname=cbmp_small.png" alt="logo" height="67px" align="left" hspace="10px"> The Arctic marine data set contains a total of 111 species and 310 population time series from 170 locations. Species coverage is about 34% of Arctic marine vertebrate species (100% of mammals, 53% of birds, and 27% of fishes) (Bluhm et al. 2011). At the species level, even though the representation of Arctic fish species is lower than that of mammals and birds, the data are dominated by fishes, primarily from the Pacific Ocean (especially the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands). However, there are more population time series in total for bird species, which is reflective of this group being both better studied historically and also monitored at many small study sites compared to fish and marine mammal species, which are regularly monitored at a much larger scale through stock management. Note that the time span selected for marine analyses is 1970 to 2005 (compared with 1970 to 2007 for the ASTI for all species). CAFF Assessment Series No. 7 April 2012 - The Arctic Species Trend Index - Tracking trends in Arctic marine populations

Powerpoint with graphs of population change with births, deaths and net migration 43 Arctic Alaska communities, 1990-2013.

Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK was 159.00000 Persons in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK reached a record high of 197.00000 in January of 2021 and a record low of 54.00000 in January of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Population Estimate, Total, Hispanic or Latino (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Database of Arctic Settlements with a population of at least 500 inhabitants (as of 2017). For information about sources and feature attributes, see included metadata sheet.

Contact: Shinan Wang, shinan.wang@nordregio.org

Estimate, Median Age by Sex, Total Population (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK was 28.30000 Years of Age in January of 2023, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Estimate, Median Age by Sex, Total Population (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK reached a record high of 29.20000 in January of 2022 and a record low of 25.30000 in January of 2009. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Estimate, Median Age by Sex, Total Population (5-year estimate) in Northwest Arctic Borough, AK - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the Northwest Arctic Borough Hispanic or Latino population. It includes the distribution of the Hispanic or Latino population, of Northwest Arctic Borough, by their ancestries, as identified by the Census Bureau. The dataset can be utilized to understand the origin of the Hispanic or Latino population of Northwest Arctic Borough.

Key observations

Among the Hispanic population in Northwest Arctic Borough, regardless of the race, the largest group is of Mexican origin, with a population of 116 (72.96% of the total Hispanic population).

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates.

Origin for Hispanic or Latino population include:

• Mexican
• Puerto Rican
• Cuban
• Other Hispanic or Latino

Variables / Data Columns

• Origin: This column displays the origin for Hispanic or Latino population for the Northwest Arctic Borough
• Population: The population of the specific origin for Hispanic or Latino population in the Northwest Arctic Borough is shown in this column.
• % of Total Hispanic Population: This column displays the percentage distribution of each Hispanic origin as a proportion of Northwest Arctic Borough total Hispanic or Latino population. Please note that the sum of all percentages may not equal one due to rounding of values.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Northwest Arctic Borough Population by Race & Ethnicity. You can refer the same here

Provides data visualizations for demographic change over the last 25 years in 43 Alaska villages