 Estimates put the 2019 population at 1,183 people.The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with more than 1,000,000 visitors each year.Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city (urban Skagway located at ) in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (now the Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska).