ZIP code 99650

ZIP 99650 is a very small community in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, with 558 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #106 of 245 ranked by population — larger than 56% of them. The median age here is 23.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 99650 earn a median of $43,125 a year, 45.1% below the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 40.4% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 99650 is valued at $24,000, 92.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.6×, 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. 87.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 23.3 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 558 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 99650 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for ZIP 99650 because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.

ZIP 99650 is tabulated inside Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, one of 12 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 245 across Alaska. Fewer than 2,500 people are counted here, so the ZIP behaves like a village delivery route rather than a neighbourhood. 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 99650 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 99650 reports a median household income of $43,125, 11% below the $48,422 county median, and 32% below the $63,203 typical AK ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $24,000, 68% below the county figure and 86% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at not published 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 99650 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 99650 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.