What is the population of Matanuska-Susitna Borough?

Matanuska-Susitna Borough has 110,677 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Matanuska-Susitna Borough?

Median household income in Matanuska-Susitna Borough is $90,625 a year, 15.4% above the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Matanuska-Susitna Borough?

Median gross rent is $1,258 a month and the median home value is $319,200, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.

Is Matanuska-Susitna Borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Matanuska-Susitna Borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Matanuska-Susitna ZIP codes — Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

Quick answer

Matanuska-Susitna Borough is home to 110,677 residents with a median household income of $90,625 and a median home value of $319,200. 76.6% of households own their home and 10.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Matanuska-Susitna ZIP code? 11 ZIP code areas fall inside Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, listed in full below.

Population: 110,677Matanuska-Susitna Borough residents
Median household income: $90,625Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $319,200Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,258Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 76.6%Owner-occupied households

Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough is a mid-size city in Alaska, with 110,677 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 36.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Matanuska-Susitna Borough earn a median of $90,625 a year, 15.4% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 10.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Matanuska-Susitna Borough is valued at $319,200, 5.2% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,258 a month, 10.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,096 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.7% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 76.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.

ZIP codes in Matanuska-Susitna Borough

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Matanuska-Susitna Borough.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Matanuska-Susitna Borough?: Matanuska-Susitna Borough has 110,677 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Matanuska-Susitna Borough?: Median household income in Matanuska-Susitna Borough is $90,625 a year, 15.4% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Matanuska-Susitna Borough?: Median gross rent is $1,258 a month and the median home value is $319,200, so rent absorbs about 16.7% of median household income.
Is Matanuska-Susitna Borough affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Matanuska-Susitna Borough is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Matanuska-Susitna Borough data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.