Nikolai, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Nikolai city is a very small community in Alaska, with 89 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #240 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 49.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Nikolai city earn a median of $36,250 a year, 53.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 55% below 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 34.8% 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 Nikolai city is valued at $101,300, 66.6% below the national figure and 67% below the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 73.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 89 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Nikolai city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Nikolai 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.