Alaska Community Equity Measures
This database is intended to applicants quickly identify important information regarding Alaska’s municipalities and to facilitate federal grant applications. Incorporating several federal datasets, this tool helps describe disadvantage, equity, and environmental justice in Alaska communities. Incorporating these metrics into one place empowers municipal leaders to more effectively navigate through the complex processes of securing federal funding resources.
Map Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section
How to Use this Tool
Select a borough or census area from the drop-down, then click on the Community name.
Choose Borough or Census AreaAleutians East Borough
- All
- Aleutians East Borough
- Aleutians West Census Area
- Anchorage Muni
- Bethel Census Area
- Bristol Bay Borough
- Chugach Census Area
- Copper River Census Area
- Denali Borough
- Dillingham Census Area
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Haines Borough
- Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
- Juneau Borough
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Kodiak Island Borough
- Kusilvak Census Area
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Nome Census Area
- North Slope Borough
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Petersburg Borough
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area
- Sitka Borough
- Skagway Municipality
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
- Wrangell City and Borough
- Yakutat Borough
- Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
About the Alaska Community Equity Measures tool
Federal agencies have different ways to categorize underserved communities. The increased federal focus on equity and disadvantage is positive for Alaska, especially if those most disadvantaged communities can utilize the tools available and report accurately to federal agencies. Their data is often sorted by census area or census tract and is hard to navigate through for local and Tribal government and nonprofit applicants.
With support from the Rasmuson Foundation, AML was able to review and align available federal data and criteria by community to make them accessible, enabling grant applicants to visit a single website, search for their community name and produce a report with the data and categorization by each agency in numerical and summary formats. The idea for this project is to ensure that applicants can easily use this data for grant narrative and reference accordingly.
AML has conducted the data collection, sorting, and additional analysis. Where gaps in data exist, we intend to communicate these to the appropriate federal agencies.
Support for our work
The Alaska Municipal League would like to thank the Rasmuson Foundation for supporting our work to help applicants navigate through federal data visualization tools that describe disadvantage, equity, and environmental justice in Alaska communities.
