Alakanuk, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Alakanuk city is a very small community in Alaska, with 997 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #77 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 21.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Alakanuk city earn a median of $39,667 a year, 49.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 51% below the $81,250 median for the 73 Alaska cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 39.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Alakanuk city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $828 a month, 41.1% below the national figure, or roughly $9,936 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 68% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 21.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 997 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Alakanuk city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Alakanuk city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.