LOCAL DATA PROFILE
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Local community conditions with the most responsible available mortality comparison.
REGIONAL FALLBACK MORTALITY COMPARISON
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
A publishable local rate is unavailable. This profile uses the official Alaska public-health-region rate.
COMMUNITY CONTEXT
Conditions affecting access and planning
These indicators provide context. They do not prove why suicide deaths occurred.
ACS population estimate
13,7682020–2024Population density
2.82020–2024Median household income
92,8852020–2024± 5,657.0 margin of errorPopulation below poverty level
8.7%2020–2024± 1.7 margin of errorHouseholds with broadband internet
92.0%2020–2024Labor-force participation
66.3%2020–2024± 2.3 margin of errorACS unemployment rate
3.1%2020–2024± 1.0 margin of errorMedian gross rent
1,5052020–2024± 94.0 margin of errorRenters paying 30% or more of income for housing
49.0%2020–2024± 6.0 margin of errorREAD CAREFULLY
Local numbers need restraint
Local mortality uses 2019–2023 pooled data when a rate is publishable.
Wide confidence intervals can make small numerical differences meaningless.
When local mortality is unavailable, the profile clearly uses a regional or state rate.