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

Wrangell has a population of 2510. 54% of Wrangell’s inhabitants are Male, and 46 are female. 54.1% of Wrangell is married and 71.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $218,347, and the average rent is $868. Household median income in Wrangell is $58,438, and the individual median income is $30,054. Wrangell’s Ethnic is the following: White(65.2%), Native(22.7%), Multiple(8.3%), Hispanic(3.9%), Asian(1.7%), Pacific(1.3%), Other(0.5%), Black(0.3%).


The City and Borough of Wrangell (Tlingit: Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Russian: Врангель) is a borough in Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 2,127, down from 2,369 in 2010.Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area (afterwards renamed the Petersburg Census Area (the Petersburg Borough was formed from part of this census area)).


Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw ("Ḵaachx̱ans Little Lake" with áa-kʼw 'lake-diminutive'). The Tlingit people living in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves the Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine River. Alternately they use the autonym Shxʼát Ḵwáan, where the meaning of shxʼát is unknown. The central (urban) part of Wrangell is located at 56°28′15″N 132°22′36″W, in the northwest corner of Wrangell Island, whereas the borough now encompasses the entire eastern half of the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, in addition to the area around Meyers Chuck, which was formerly in the Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area.


It also includes Thoms Place, a former census-designated place on Wrangell Island.


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