Kusilvak Census Area

Also known as Wade Hampton Census Area, Wade Hampton Census Area, Alaska, Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska

census area in Alaska, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Alaska
Named after: Kusilvak Mountains
Largest city: Hooper Bay
Total: 19,673 sq mi (50,950 km )
Land: 17,081 sq mi (44,240 km )
Water: 2,592 sq mi (6,710 km ) 13.2%
Estimate 2025: 7,932
Density: 0.44/sq mi (0.17/km )
Time zone: UTC−9 ( Alaska )
Summer dst: UTC−8 ( ADT )
Congressional district: At-large

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Kusilvak Census Area, formerly known as Wade Hampton Census Area, is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,368, up from 7,459 in 2010. It is part of the Unorganized Borough and therefore has no borough seat. Its largest community is the city of Hooper Bay, on the Bering Sea coast.

The census area's per capita income makes it the fourth-poorest county-equivalent in the United States. In 2014, it had the highest percentage of unemployed people of any county or census area in the United States, at 23.7 percent.