Holy Cross, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Holy Cross city is a very small community in Alaska, with 229 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #174 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 51% of them. The median age here is 35.5 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 Holy Cross city earn a median of $22,917 a year, 70.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 72% 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 13.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Holy Cross city is valued at $55,600, 81.7% below the national figure and 82% below the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $733 a month, 47.9% below the national figure, or roughly $8,796 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 38.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 82.8% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Holy Cross city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 38.4% of median income while homes cost only 2.4× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 229 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Holy Cross city against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.