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1914 – Anchorage founded as a railroad construction camp. [1] 1915 Chamber of Commerce [2] and Anchorage Memorial cemetery established. Alaska Railroad construction begins in Anchorage. [3] 1916 Anchorage Hotel built. Population: 3,332. [4] 1917 – Anchorage Daily Times newspaper begins publication. [5] 1920 Anchorage incorporated as a town. [1]
In the 1940s and 1950s, Anchorage began looking more like a city. Between 1940 and 1951, Anchorage's population increased from 3,000 to 47,000. Crime and the cost of living in the city also grew. In 1949, the first traffic lights were installed on Fourth Avenue. In 1951, the Seward Highway was opened.
Population [14] Notes 1 Anchorage: Anchorage Municipality: 174,431: City of Anchorage merged with Greater Anchorage Area Borough in 1975 to form the Municipality of Anchorage. [15] 2 Fairbanks: Fairbanks North Star Borough: 22,645: 3 Juneau: City & Borough of Juneau: 19,528
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Anchorage, and Alaska in general, have very high rates of sexual assault in comparison with the rest of the country, with Anchorage's annual rate of forcible rapes over three times as high as for the U.S. as a whole. In 2010, the rate of rape for Anchorage was 90.9 per 100,000 population, [122] while the U.S. rate was 27.5 per 100,000 ...
The Anchorage Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of the Municipality of Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the south central region of Alaska. [2] As of the 2010 census, the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) had a population of 380,821. [3]
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Darker shades indicate a higher proportion of the population. As of 2020, Alaska has a population of 733,391. In 2005, the population of Alaska was 663,661, which is an increase of 5,906, or 0.9%, from the prior year and an increase of 36,730, or 5.9%, since the year 2000. [2]