Meadow Lakes, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Meadow Lakes CDP is a mid-size town in Alaska, with 8,994 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #10 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 97% of them. The median age here is 37.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Meadow Lakes CDP earn a median of $81,250 a year, 3.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $81,250 median for the 73 Alaska cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 12.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Meadow Lakes CDP is valued at $305,100, essentially level with the national figure and within a couple of points of the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,308 a month, 7% below the national figure, or roughly $15,696 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 19.3% 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 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 78.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.