ZIP code 99518

ZIP 99518 is a mid-size town in Anchorage Municipality, Alaska, with 9,837 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #24 of 245 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 32.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 99518 earn a median of $91,077 a year, 16% above the national figure of $78,538. 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 10.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 99518 is valued at $297,900, 1.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,661 a month, 18.1% above the national figure, or roughly $19,932 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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 99518 is tabulated inside Anchorage Municipality, Alaska, one of 17 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 245 across Alaska. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 99518 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 99518 reports a median household income of $91,077, 8% below the $99,307 county median, and 44% above the $63,203 typical AK ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $297,900, 21% below the county figure and 74% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,661 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 99518 carries 0% at the register, assembled from the Anchorage jurisdiction stack: the Alaska state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 99518 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 99518 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.