Copper River Census Area is a
census area
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located in the
state
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of
Alaska
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,
United States
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. It is part of the
Unorganized Borough
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and therefore has no
borough seat. On January 2, 2019, it was split from the
Valdez–Cordova Census Area, along with neighboring
Chugach Census Area.
As of the
2020 census, the census area had a population of 2,617; its largest communities are the
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
s of
Glennallen and
Copper Center.
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It is named after
Copper River that has rich fish and flows through the census area.
Demographics
According to the
2010 United States Census (in which it was reported as the "Copper River Census Subarea"), the census area had a population of 2,952; 2,229 (75.5%) of whom were over the age of 18, and 321 (10.9%) of whom were over the age of 65. 2,032 residents (68.8%) were reported as
White
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alone (2,020/68.4%
non-Hispanic white
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), 11 (0.4%) as
Black
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, 678 (23.0%) as
American Indian or
Alaska Native
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, 11 (0.4%) as
Asian, 13 (0.4%) as
Native Hawaiian
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or other
Pacific Islander
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, 5 (0.2%) as some other race, and 202 (6.9%) as two or more races. 53 people (1.8%) were
Hispanic or Latino (they may be of any of the above racial categories).
Communities
Census-designated places
*
Chisana
*
Chistochina
*
Chitina
*
Copper Center
*
Gakona
*
Glennallen
*
Gulkana
*
Kenny Lake
*
McCarthy
*
Mendeltna
*
Mentasta Lake
*
Nabesna
*
Nelchina
*
Paxson
*
Silver Springs
*
Slana
*
Tazlina
*
Tolsona
*
Tonsina
*
Willow Creek
Unincorporated communities
*
Copperville (Also a former CDP)
Politics
Copper River Census Area is a
Republican stronghold. It has only voted in two elections (2020 and 2024) since its creation; yet it gave around two-thirds of its vote to
Donald Trump
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in each.
References
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