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


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

Anacortes has a population of 17231. 48.3% of Anacortes’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 57.7% of Anacortes is married and 67.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $446,305, and the average rent is $1,264. Household median income in Anacortes is $74,161, and the individual median income is $37,826. Anacortes’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.9%), Hispanic(4.6%), Multiple(4.5%), Asian(2.8%), Other(1%), Black(0.8%), Native(0.8%), Pacific(0.4%).


Anacortes ( AN-ə-KOR-təs) is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name "Anacortes" is an adaptation of the name of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of early Fidalgo Island settler Amos Bowman. Anacortes' population was 17,637 at the time of the 2020 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes Metropolitan Statistical Area. Anacortes is known for the Washington State Ferries dock and terminal serving Lopez Island, Shaw Island, Orcas Island, and San Juan Island, as well as Victoria, British Columbia (via Sidney, British Columbia), on Vancouver Island.


There is also a Skagit County-operated ferry that serves Guemes Island, a residential island located across Guemes Channel, north of Anacortes.


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