County health data
Health data for Alaska boroughs and census areas
CDC PLACES estimates for 30 boroughs and census areas in Alaska. Statewide, 8.7% of adults have diagnosed diabetes (CDC BRFSS). The highest borough or census area rate is Kusilvak Census Area at 16.5%. HRSA lists a shortage area designation (a federal finding that an area has too few primary care, mental health, or dental providers) in 30 of 30.
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Boroughs and census areas in Alaska
- Aleutians East Boroughdiabetes 12.8%, 3 shortage areas
- Aleutians West Census Areadiabetes 10.8%, 3 shortage areas
- Anchorage Municipalitydiabetes 8.9%, 3 shortage areas, 4 hospitals
- Bethel Census Areadiabetes 13.8%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Bristol Bay Boroughdiabetes 11.3%, 3 shortage areas
- Chugach Census Areadiabetes 9.6%, 3 shortage areas
- Copper River Census Areadiabetes 11.4%, 3 shortage areas
- Denali Boroughdiabetes 8.6%, 3 shortage areas
- Dillingham Census Areadiabetes 13.0%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Fairbanks North Star Boroughdiabetes 7.9%, 3 shortage areas, 2 hospitals
- Haines Boroughdiabetes 10.8%, 3 shortage areas
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Areadiabetes 14.8%, 3 shortage areas
- Juneau City and Boroughdiabetes 8.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Kenai Peninsula Boroughdiabetes 9.8%, 3 shortage areas, 3 hospitals
- Ketchikan Gateway Boroughdiabetes 10.1%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Kodiak Island Boroughdiabetes 9.8%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Kusilvak Census Areadiabetes 16.5%, 3 shortage areas
- Lake and Peninsula Boroughdiabetes 14.6%, 3 shortage areas
- Matanuska-Susitna Boroughdiabetes 9.0%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Nome Census Areadiabetes 13.0%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- North Slope Boroughdiabetes 10.8%, 2 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Northwest Arctic Boroughdiabetes 14.1%, 1 shortage area, 1 hospital
- Petersburg Boroughdiabetes 10.5%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Areadiabetes 14.0%, 3 shortage areas
- Sitka City and Boroughdiabetes 9.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Skagway Municipalitydiabetes 9.1%, 3 shortage areas
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Areadiabetes 10.2%, 3 shortage areas
- Wrangell City and Boroughdiabetes 12.9%, 3 shortage areas, 1 hospital
- Yakutat City and Boroughdiabetes 13.7%, 3 shortage areas
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Areadiabetes 16.5%, 2 shortage areas
Source: CDC PLACES county data, as of December 4, 2025. Publisher page
Source: CDC BRFSS prevalence data, as of September 15, 2026. Publisher page
Source: HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas, as of October 14, 2026. Publisher page
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Alaska rural health plan
State of Alaska Rural Health Transformation Program
Initiatives, as the state's abstract names them (page 5):
- Healthy Beginnings
- Health Care Access
- Healthy Communities
- Pay for Value: Fiscal Sustainability
- Strengthen Workforce
- Spark Technology and Innovation
CMS says the abstract budgets are illustrative and are not award amounts, so none are shown.
Source: CMS Rural Health Transformation Program state project abstracts, as of December 2025. Publisher page
About this data
County rates are CDC PLACES model-based estimates of adults, built from the CDC BRFSS survey and Census population data. State and US figures are BRFSS survey results for the same year. They are not averages of counties, and small differences may not be meaningful.
Shortage rows are HRSA designations with status Designated. Scores run from 0 to 25 (0 to 26 for dental); a higher score means greater need. Hospitals are acute care and critical access hospitals CMS lists in the county, with 30-day rates of unplanned readmission. Health centers are active HRSA-funded and look-alike sites.
Rural health plan initiatives are copied as the state wrote them. Nothing here is medical advice.
Source: CDC PLACES county data, as of December 4, 2025. Publisher page
Source: CDC BRFSS prevalence data, as of September 15, 2026. Publisher page
Source: HRSA Health Professional Shortage Areas, as of October 14, 2026. Publisher page