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

Unalaska has a population of 4758. 63.2% of Unalaska’s inhabitants are Male, and 36.8 are female. 51.1% of Unalaska is married and 22.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $393,859, and the average rent is $1,561. Household median income in Unalaska is $90,938, and the individual median income is $44,693. Unalaska’s Ethnic is the following: Asian(48.8%), White(26.5%), Hispanic(14.9%), Multiple(10.6%), Other(6.3%), Black(2.6%), Native(2.5%), Pacific(2.5%).


Unalaska (Aleut: Iluulux̂; Russian: Уналашка) is the chief center of population in the Aleutian Islands. The city is in the Aleutians West Census Area, a regional component of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Unalaska is located on Unalaska Island and neighboring Amaknak Island in the Aleutian Islands off mainland Alaska.


The population was 4,254 at the 2020 census, which is 81% of the entire Aleutians West Census Area. Unalaska is the second largest city in the Unorganized Borough, behind Bethel. The Aleut (Unangan) people have lived on Unalaska Island for thousands of years. The Unangan, who were the first to inhabit the island of Unalaska, named it "Ounalashka", meaning "near the peninsula".


The regional native corporation has adopted this moniker, and is known as the Ounalashka Corporation. The Russian fur trade reached Unalaska when Stepan Glotov and his crew arrived on August 1, 1759. Natives, Russians and their descendants comprised most of the community's population until the mid-20th century, when the involvement of the United States in World War II led to a large-scale influx of people and construction of buildings all along the strategically located Aleutians. Almost all of the community's port facilities are on Amaknak Island, better known as Dutch Harbor or just "Dutch".


It is the largest fisheries port in the U.S. by volume caught. It includes Dutch Harbor Naval Operating Base and Fort Mears, U.S. Army, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Dutch Harbor lies within the city limits of Unalaska and is connected to Unalaska by a bridge. Amaknak Island is home to almost 59 percent of the city's population, although it has less than 3 percent of its land area. As a result of the town's strong fishing industry, Unalaska has also become notable for its large population of bald eagles, which number in the hundreds and were attracted to the area by human activity.


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