A town of 7,641, settled in 1960. A typical home worth about $331K.
The 3 things Kenai does most differently from other towns.
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Ordered by what stands out in Kenai. Another town gets a different order.
The typical Kenai home is worth about $331,000, up 6.2% in a year, 17% below the Alaska typical home.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 96% of U.S. communities.
3.6 miles of trails across 6 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Kenai Municipal Park | 0.5 mi | 31 |
| 2. Softball Greenstrip | — | 12 |
| 3. Kenai River Flats | — | 3 |
The public schools Kenai’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 69% of Alaska’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. View Elementary | PK–5 | 449 | B |
| Kaleidoscope School of Arts & Science | K–5 | 205 | B |
| Aurora Borealis Charter School | K–8 | 199 | A+ |
| Kenai Middle School | 6–8 | 408 | B |
| Kenai Central High School | 9–12 | 525 | B+ |
| Kenai Alternative High School | 9–12 | 45 | Not graded |
Kenai has cold winters and cool summers, with very little rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 63°, a January night drops to 7°.
Kenai beats the Alaska average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 4.
| What stands out | Kenai | AK |
|---|---|---|
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.8% | 7% |
| Fewer women getting mammograms | 58.6% | 66% |
| Fewer adults getting a yearly checkup | 63.4% | 68.8% |
Kenai reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 54% report less.
6 postcards, papers and photographs from public archives, and 1 places on the National Register.
5 notable people were born in Kenai.
City in Alaska, United States
Kenai (, KEE-ny; Dena'ina: Shk'ituk't; Russian: Кенай, romanized: Kenay) is a city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. By road, it is 158 miles southwest of Anchorage. The population was 7,424 as of the 2020 census, up from 7,100 in 2010, the seventh-most populated city in the state.
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3 towns share a border with Kenai.
