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We would like to provide the residents of  Hoonah  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Hoonah Home page. The Hoonah Home page provides as much information as possible on Hoonah. Knowing Hoonah’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Hoonah’s Home page, you will also find Hoonah’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Hoonah has a population of 850. 60.9% of Hoonah’s inhabitants are Male, and 39.1 are female. 38.3% of Hoonah is married and 67.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $235,512, and the average rent is $1,097. Household median income in Hoonah is $63,250, and the individual median income is $27,107. Hoonah’s Ethnic is the following: Native(42.2%), White(32.7%), Multiple(17.3%), Hispanic(12.8%), Asian(5.8%), Black(2%).


Hoonah (Tlingit: Xunaa or Gaaw Yat’aḵ Aan) is a largely Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's panhandle in the southeast region of the state. It is 30 miles (48 km) west of Juneau, across the Alaskan Inside Passage. Hoonah is the only first-class city on Chichagof Island, the 109th-largest island in the world and the 5th-largest island in the U.S.


At the 2020 census the population was 931, up from 760 in 2010. In the summer the population can swell to over 1,300 depending on fishing, boating, hiking and hunting conditions."Hoonah" became the official spelling in 1901, with establishment of the Hoonah branch of the United States Post Office. "Hoonah" is the approximate pronunciation of the Tlingit name Xunaa, which means “lee of the north wind”, i.e., protected from the north wind.


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