Goodnews Bay, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Goodnews Bay city is a very small community in Alaska, with 113 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #222 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 32.6 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 Goodnews Bay city earn a median of $29,167 a year, 62.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 64% below the $81,250 median for the 73 Alaska cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 55.8% 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 Goodnews Bay city is valued at $125,000, 58.8% below the national figure and 59% below the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 100% 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.

With 113 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Goodnews Bay city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Goodnews Bay 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.