ZIP code 99762

ZIP 99762 is a small town in Nome Census Area, Alaska, with 4,154 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #34 of 245 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 31.4 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 99762 earn a median of $109,896 a year, 39.9% above 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 8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 99762 is valued at $324,000, 6.8% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,567 a month, 11.5% above the national figure, or roughly $18,804 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.1% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 52.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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 99762 is tabulated inside Nome Census Area, Alaska, one of 14 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 99762 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 99762 reports a median household income of $109,896, 106% above the $53,438 county median, and 74% above the $63,203 typical AK ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $324,000, 209% above the county figure and 90% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,567 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 99762 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 99762 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.