State or territory · Census 2020–2024
Median rent and rent burden in Alaska
- Median monthly gross rent
- $1,419 ± $23 margin
- Rent burden · 30% or more
- 44.6% ± 1.4 percentage points
- Severe burden · 50% or more
- 19.5% ± 0.9 percentage points
How much income would keep this rent at 30%?
The area’s median gross rent would equal 30% of an annual household income of $56,760. The calculation multiplies monthly rent by 12 and divides by 0.30.
Compare with broader areas
| Area | Median gross rent ± margin | Rent burden | Severe burden |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | $1,419 ± $23 | 44.6% | 19.5% |
| United States | $1,413 ± $2 | 51.1% | 25.9% |
Browse counties in Alaska
- Aleutians East Borough$979 median gross rent · 30.2% rent burden
- Aleutians West Census Area$1,982 median gross rent · 29.4% rent burden
- Anchorage Municipality$1,489 median gross rent · 46.3% rent burden
- Bethel Census Area$1,474 median gross rent · 22.9% rent burden
- Chugach Census Area$1,369 median gross rent · 36.3% rent burden
- Copper River Census Area$1,089 median gross rent · 25.4% rent burden
- Denali Borough$825 median gross rent · 25.9% rent burden
- Dillingham Census Area$1,105 median gross rent · 34.4% rent burden
- Fairbanks North Star Borough$1,459 median gross rent · 45.9% rent burden
- Haines Borough$1,087 median gross rent · 52.9% rent burden
- Juneau City and Borough$1,444 median gross rent · 36.1% rent burden
- Kenai Peninsula Borough$1,184 median gross rent · 48.9% rent burden
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough$1,505 median gross rent · 49% rent burden
- Kodiak Island Borough$1,765 median gross rent · 37.8% rent burden
- Kusilvak Census Area$833 median gross rent · 31.8% rent burden
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough$1,299 median gross rent · 52.7% rent burden
- Nome Census Area$1,394 median gross rent · 30.5% rent burden
- North Slope Borough$1,254 median gross rent · 29.6% rent burden
- Northwest Arctic Borough$1,350 median gross rent · 19.7% rent burden
- Petersburg Borough$950 median gross rent · 34.2% rent burden
- Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area$964 median gross rent · 30.2% rent burden
- Sitka City and Borough$1,341 median gross rent · 47% rent burden
- Skagway Municipality$1,280 median gross rent · 47.1% rent burden
- Southeast Fairbanks Census Area$1,351 median gross rent · 38.7% rent burden
- Wrangell City and Borough$993 median gross rent · 34.5% rent burden
Data and definitions
How to read the estimates
The Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey five-year release provides these survey estimates. America.co matched Census rent tables by geography ID and used the Gazetteer’s representative points to calculate straight-line distance.
- Gross rent includes contract rent and utilities or fuels paid separately. The median describes cash-rent homes surveyed during this period.
- Rent burden means gross rent was at least 30% of household income. Severe rent burden means at least 50%. Both shares use only cash-rent households for which Census could compute the ratio.
- Margins use the Census 90% confidence level. The rent margin is published by Census. The burden margins are approximate and combine the published category margins using the Census sum and proportion formulas. County and ZIP-area pages require at least 100 estimated households with a computed ratio, a rent margin at most 35% of the estimate, and a rent-burden margin of 20 percentage points or less.
- ZIP areas are Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas. A mailing ZIP can differ or have no corresponding Census area. Distances are straight-line distances between representative points.
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