thumb|right|Bear Creek Landing Field in 1944
Bear Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 2,129 up from 1,956 in 2010. Bear Creek is a few miles north of Seward near the stream of the same name and its source, Bear Lake.
Geography
Bear Creek is located at (60.176060, -149.395066). It is bordered to the south by the city of Seward and to the north by Primrose. The CDP includes the unincorporated community of Woodrow, located at the south end of Bear Lake.
Alaska Route 9, the Seward Highway, runs the length of the Bear Creek community, leading south to the center of Seward and north to Alaska Route 1 at Tern Lake. Anchorage is north of Bear Creek.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 3.21%, are water.
Bear Creek first appeared on the 2000 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP).
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Bear Creek had a population of 2,129. The median age was 41.0 years. 22.1% of residents were under the age of 18 and 13.5% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 108.9 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 116.0 males age 18 and over.
0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 857 households in Bear Creek, of which 28.9% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 50.5% were married-couple households, 23.3% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 16.9% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 26.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Since 2020 the median age of Bear Creek CDP has decreased by 1.5 years for both males and females, 1.1 years for males, and 4.9 years for females, for a total of 44.7 years, 45.9 years, and 38.9 years. From 2017 to 2021 the male and female population for 0-9 year-olds has increased by 74.26% and decreased by 63.5%, increased by 131.08% and 90.87% for 10-19 year-olds, decreased by 210.61% and increased by 121.16% for 20-29 year-olds, decreased by 4.92% and increased by 44.6% for 30-39 year-olds, increased by 71.79% and 35.25% for 40-49 year-olds, decreased by 69.62% and 56.83% for 50-59 year-olds, increased by 21.58% and 70.69% for 60-69 year-olds, and increased by 32.02% and decreased by 35.77% for 70 years and older.