In the 2021 census, only 23 people registered as ethnic Kereks in Russia.

During the twentieth century, Kereks were almost completely assimilated into the Chukchi people.

In 2024, Ukrainian media said that "one of the last members of the Kerek people" had died; furthermore, he "was killed in action in the Kursk region, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[5] Historically, the Kerek were a settled people who engaged in fishing and hunting of wild deer and mountain sheep.

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