Anchorage, AK

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Trends

Survey and county figures by year. Dollar values are not adjusted for inflation.

How Anchorage ranks

• #6 Most Affordable Cities of 100 cities · score 75.9
• #11 Best-Connected Cities of 100 cities · score 89.3
• #12 Cities with the Cleanest Air of 95 cities · score 85.7
• #14 Best Cities Overall of 100 cities · score 66.6
• #15 Best Cities for Park Access of 99 cities · score 75.7
• #27 Healthiest Cities of 96 cities · score 62.3
• #31 Safest Cities from Natural Disasters of 75 cities · score 57.1
• #33 Best Cities for Car-Free Commuting of 100 cities · score 60.9
• #71 Lowest Student-Teacher Ratios of 96 cities · score 26.3

Local facts

Median household income

$98,152

Median rent

$1,453 / mo

Median home value

$375,900

Median age

34.9

Unemployment

4.6%

Bachelor's degree or higher

37.7%

Poverty rate

9.3%

Renter-occupied homes

36.3%

Public schools

Public schools located in the city, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Staffing figures describe resources, not school quality.

Public schools

80

Students enrolled

37,207

Students per teacher

18.4 : 1

Free or reduced-price lunch

43.8%

Charter schools

10.0%

School districts serving the city

2

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Districts: Anchorage School District, Chugach School District

Health & wellbeing

CDC PLACES model-based estimates for adults (age-adjusted), not a count of diagnoses.

Adults with obesity

35.1%

No leisure-time physical activity

20.1%

Adults with diabetes

8.8%

Adults who smoke

14.3%

Frequent mental distress

16.3%

Sleeping under 7 hours

35.7%

Adults without health insurance

9.7%

Routine checkup in past year

70.7%

Parks, air & walkability

Residents within a 10-minute walk of a park

78.2%

Share of city that is parkland

84.4%

EPA walkability index (1-20)

2.1

Median air quality index (county)

26

Unhealthy air days (county)

1

Internet & commuting

Households with broadband

94.3%

Households with no internet

4.0%

Average commute

19.0 min

Work from home

9.6%

Commute by transit

1.4%

Commute on foot

2.6%

Commute by bike

0.6%

Natural hazard risk

FEMA rates Anchorage Municipality as relatively high overall for natural hazard risk, with 4 federally declared disasters in the past ten years.

• Earthquake: relatively high
• Landslide: relatively high
• Winter weather: very high
• Volcano: relatively low

ZIP codes

• 99501
• 99502
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• 99513
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