Unalakleet, AK population, income and ZIP codes

Unalakleet city is a very small community in Alaska, with 800 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #88 of 355 ranked by population — larger than 75% of them. The median age here is 38.7 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 Unalakleet city earn a median of $86,250 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538 and 6% above 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 12.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Unalakleet city is valued at $163,800, 46% below the national figure and 46% below the $305,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,180 a month, 16.1% below the national figure, or roughly $14,160 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.4% 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 1.9×, 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. 56.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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. With 800 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Unalakleet 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.