The Shift to an Older Alaska

With a median age of 33.8 years, Alaska is the third-youngest state in the nation after Utah and Texas. Alaska is young in part because it has a higher-than average birth rate and it tends to attract young workers - but more importantly, it's home to relatively few people age 65 and older. In 2010, that age group was just 7.7 percent of Alaska's population, the smallest share of any state.