Anchorage Municipality, Alaska
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288,121 inhabitants
5.8% unemployment rate
$84.58k median HH income
15.38 crimes per 1000 residents
65 residents per km²
8.3% poverty rate
3.84 income inequality
78.7 years life expectancy
Source: USDA ERS County-level datasets 2020; County Health Rankings 2022; Augurisk crime data
Natural disaster risk assessment
Average disaster risk exposure for Anchorage Municipality, Alaska
History of natural disasters
List of recorded natural disasters and incidents in Anchorage Municipality
Storm events
Anchorage Municipality
Source: Risk scoring by Augurisk. Scoring methodology based on historical data, involving a frequency and severity analysis of various storm events. NOAA Storm events database.
Coastal Flooding
Anchorage Municipality is not exposed to coastal flooding.
Source: Scoring by Augurisk. Scoring methodology based on local elevation, storm events incidence, and expected sea level rise. Elevation data - USGS 3DEP Elevation program. Sweet, W.V., R.E. Kopp, C. P. Weaver, J. Obeysekera, R. M. Horton, E.R. Thieler and C. Zervas (2017), Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States. NOAA Tech. Rep. NOS CO-OPS 83.
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Average societal risk exposure for Anchorage Municipality, Alaska
Crime Risk
The Anchorage Municipality
Source:
Data and scoring by Augurisk, based on predictions generated using a tree-based learning algorithm. The methodology for the model, which uses 188 predictors and was trained on 11 U.S. cities, is published in an international peer-reviewed academic journal. Violent crime predictions include simple assaults.
Ashby, M.P.J. (2019): Studying Crime and Place with the Crime Open Database. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 4(1), pp. 65-80; U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey, 2014-2018 5-Year Estimates; The methodology behind Augurisk crime scores was published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Lamari, Y.; Freskura, B.; Abdessamad, A.; Eichberg, S.; de Bonviller, S. Predicting Spatial Crime Occurrences through an Efficient Ensemble-Learning Model. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 645.
Data and scoring by Augurisk, based on predictions generated using a tree-based learning algorithm. The methodology for the model, which uses 188 predictors and was trained on 11 U.S. cities, is published in an international peer-reviewed academic journal. Violent crime predictions include simple assaults.
Ashby, M.P.J. (2019): Studying Crime and Place with the Crime Open Database. Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences 4(1), pp. 65-80; U.S. Census Bureau: American Community Survey, 2014-2018 5-Year Estimates; The methodology behind Augurisk crime scores was published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Lamari, Y.; Freskura, B.; Abdessamad, A.; Eichberg, S.; de Bonviller, S. Predicting Spatial Crime Occurrences through an Efficient Ensemble-Learning Model. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2020, 9, 645.
Air Quality
The Anchorage Municipality
Source: Scoring by Augurisk based on daily median and maximal Air Quality Indexes (AQI) in the last 3 years, averaged over the county’s area.
U.S. EPA AirNow program.
U.S. EPA AirNow program.
Hospital Infrastructure
9 hospitals
1,130 hospital beds
364 dentists
11 physicians per 10k residents
39 beds per 10K residents
1,036 mental health providers
Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data: Hospitals.
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2019.
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2019.
Nuclear Power Plants
Anchorage Municipality has no nuclear power plants.
Source: Scoring by Augurisk based on nuclear reactor characteristics and waste storage sites in the county. Data on nuclear reactors and waste storage sites retrieved from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s high-value datasets.
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