Gakona, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Gakona CDP is a very small community in Alaska, with 200 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #191 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 46% of them. The median age here is 36.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Gakona CDP earn a median of $90,313 a year, 15% above the national figure of $78,538 and 11% above the $81,250 median for the 73 Alaska cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 13% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gakona CDP is valued at $322,700, 6.4% above the national figure and 6% above the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $710 a month, 49.5% below the national figure, or roughly $8,520 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 9.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 80.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 200 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Gakona CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.