Portage Creek, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Portage Creek CDP is a very small community in Alaska, with 5 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #326 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 8% of them. The median age here is 61.3 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 Portage Creek CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Portage Creek CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 33.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

A median age of 61.3 puts Portage Creek CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 5 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Portage Creek CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, home value, gross rent for Portage Creek CDP 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.