Alaska lost 5,000 more residents in 2023 than it gained in new residents

Alaska is losing its residents to Texas, Oregon, Washington state and Florida.

That’s according to 2023 American Community Survey results, an annual demographics survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

From 2022 to 2023, Alaska lost more residents than it gained, continuing a trend that has existed since 2012.

Though Alaska has long led the nation in annual population turnover — typically, about 45,000 people moved both into and out of the state annually, said Alaska Department of Labor demographer Eric Sandberg — “what has changed is that the number leaving is now consistently higher than...