Anchorage Municipality · Alaska
Anchorage, AK housing costs
What a home costs to buy and to rent here, how old the housing stock is, and how much of a paycheck rent takes — all from Census ACS 5-year estimates.
Quick answer
The median home in Anchorage, AK is worth $375,900 and median gross rent is $1,453 a month. That is 24% above the national median home value of $303,400. 63.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 65% nationally.
- Median home value
- $375,900#35 of 94 metros
- Median gross rent
- $1,453/mo#40 of 94 metros
- Owner-occupied
- 63.7%US average 65%
- Median year built
- 1982Half the homes here are older than this
Can a median household here buy a median home?
Price-to-income is the plainest affordability yardstick there is.
Anchorage's median household earns $95,605 a year while the median home is worth $375,900. That is a price-to-income ratio of 3.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally. Lenders have historically treated anything above 4× as stretched. Renters at the median put 29.1% of household income into gross rent; 30% is the federal threshold for “cost-burdened”.
Related data for Anchorage
The same household, seen from three angles.
Tables B25077, B25064, B25003, B25035 and B25071, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, Census place 203,000. Values are place-level, not metro-area-wide.
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