West · Alaska · pop 286K
Anchorage, AK
Weak match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in AK, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,412 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,403 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,395 left over.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($390,000) is about 4.2× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.4% unemployment).
The Anchorage fit print
Est. monthly cost
$4,017/mo
Typical rent
$1,650/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.2×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,450/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,650/mo
- Median home value
- $390,000
- Median household income
- $92,000
- Population
- 286,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.4%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 0.6%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 1,100
- Property crime rate
- 3,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 66°F
- Avg. winter low
- 13°F
- Sunny days / year
- 126
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈0/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈0/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈5/yr
- Annual rain
- 17"
- Annual snow
- 78"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+6
- Int'l airport
- ≈6 mi
- Walkability
- 31/100
- Disaster risk
- 78/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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