Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska

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Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
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Location in the state of Alaska
Statistics
Formed
Seat	King Salmon (which is located in adjacent Bristol Bay Borough)
Area - Total - Land - Water	80,049 km² (30,907 mi²) sq mi ( km²) 18,454 km² (7,125 mi²), 23.05%
Population - (2000) - Density	1,823 >1/km²
Website: www.lakeandpen.com

Lake and Peninsula Borough is a borough located in the state of Alaska, United States. As of 2000, the population was 1,823. The borough seat is King Salmon, which is actually located in neighboring Bristol Bay Borough. This is a unique arrangement for the United States in that not only is the county seat in a different borough but it also is not the county seat of the other borough.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Adjacent boroughs and census areas
2 Demographics
3 Cities and towns

[edit] Geography

The borough has a total area of 80,049 km² (30,907 mi²). 61,595 km² (23,782 mi²) of it is land and 18,454 km² (7,125 mi²) of it (23.05%) is water.

[edit] Adjacent boroughs and census areas

Bethel Census Area, Alaska - north
Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska - east
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska - southeast
Aleutians East Borough, Alaska - west
Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska - west
Dillingham Census Area, Alaska - west

[edit] Demographics

As of the census ² of 2000, there were 1,823 people, 588 households, and 418 families residing in the borough. The population density was 0/km² (0/mi²). There were 1,557 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (0/mi²). The racial makeup of the borough was 18.76% White, 0.05% Black or African American, 73.51% Native American, 0.22% Asian, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other races, and 6.97% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

44.70% of households had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.50% were married couples living together, 9.70% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.90% were non-families. 24.70% of all households were made up of individuals and 3.90% consisted of a sole occupant 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.10 and the average family size was 3.74.

In the borough the population was spread out with 37.80% under the age of 18, 8.50% from 18 to 24, 28.00% from 25 to 44, 20.20% from 45 to 64, and 5.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there were 113.50 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 124.10 males.

[edit] Cities and towns

	State of Alaska v • d • e Juneau (Capital)
Regions	Aleutian Islands \| Arctic Alaska \| Bush Alaska \| Interior \| Kenai Peninsula \| Mat-Su Valley \| North Slope \| Panhandle \| Seward Peninsula \| Southcentral \| 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