ZIP code 99586

ZIP 99586 is a very small community in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, with 430 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #124 of 245 ranked by population — larger than 49% of them. The median age here is 60.2 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 ZIP 99586 earn a median of $59,500 a year, 24.2% below the national figure of $78,538. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 99586 is valued at $285,700, 5.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $625 a month, 55.5% below the national figure, or roughly $7,500 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.6% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 57.5% 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.

A median age of 60.2 puts ZIP 99586 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 430 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 99586 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.

ZIP 99586 is tabulated inside Copper River Census Area, Alaska, one of 4 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 245 across Alaska. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. 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 99586 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 99586 reports a median household income of $59,500, 12% below the $67,542 county median, and 6% below the $63,203 typical AK ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $285,700, 10% above the county figure and 67% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $625 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Alaska charges 0% statewide, and local governments overlapping 99586 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

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 99586 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.