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

Valdez has a population of 3865. 53.7% of Valdez’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.3 are female. 58% of Valdez is married and 76.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $157,821, and the average rent is $1,136. Household median income in Valdez is $93,281, and the individual median income is $39,347. Valdez’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.7%), Multiple(6.1%), Hispanic(5.9%), Native(4%), Other(3.8%), Black(1.4%).


Valdez ( val-DEEZ, vəl-DEZ; Alutiiq: Suacit) is a city in the Chugach Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to the 2020 US Census, the population of the city is 3,985, up from 3,976 in 2010. It is the third most populated city in Alaska's Unorganized Borough. The city was named in 1790 after the Spanish Navy Minister Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán.


A former Gold Rush town, it is located at the head of Port Valdez on the eastern side of Prince William Sound. The port did not flourish until after the road link to Fairbanks was constructed in 1899. It suffered catastrophic damage during the 1964 Alaska earthquake, and is located near the site of the disastrous 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill.


Today, it is one of the most important ports in Alaska, a commercial fishing port as well as a freight terminal. Valdez is also the terminus for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.


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