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Place dossier plate
SheetAK-DELTA-JUNCTION-AK · Delta Junction, AK 1,154 pop · income 67th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Delta Junction
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Delta Junction on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Doña Ana · lowest
28,346
Doña Ana · lowest
28,346 median HH income
33.0% of the leader · rank #1
Running Sprin… · near
85,681
Running Sprin… · near
85,681 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #2
Delta Junction · this city
85,694
Delta Junction · this city
85,694 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #3
Pasadena Hills · near
85,694
Pasadena Hills · near
85,694 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #4
Arcola · near
85,697
Arcola · near
85,697 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #5
Eden · near
85,707
Eden · near
85,707 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #6
Skagway · highest
85,893
Skagway · highest
85,893 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Delta Junction on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 1,154.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Delta Junction places in the 67th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
67th
percentile, household income
59th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Delta Junction, AK
1,154 people live in Delta Junction, Alaska - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Delta Junction households earn a median of $85,694 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Delta Junction's housing stock carries a median value of $268,700, and the median resident age is 36.1 years. Educational attainment runs 23.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 27.3°F with 11.8 inches of precipitation per year and 42.2 inches of snowfall.
Alaska tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 102.4 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,467 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Alaska's average monthly utility costs around $271 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 35.2 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Delta Junction's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Delta Junction, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Delta Junction?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 27.3°F, with 11.8 inches of precipitation and 42.2 inches of annual snowfall. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Alaska is 35.2 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What does the journey to work look like in Delta Junction?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 77.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Delta Junction?
The NCES join finds 5 public schools within the city match. 23.8% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Delta Junction?
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Sand Point (1,146 residents, $73,125 income); Kotlik (1,166 residents, $49,844 income); Funny River (1,127 residents, $46,550 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Fanning Springs, FL (1,154 residents); Markle, IN (1,154 residents); Doña Ana, NM (1,154 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Delta Junction?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$85,694
Home value
$268,700
Value / income
3.1×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Delta Junction growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +58 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.3% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+6.3%
2025 estimate
977
2020 estimate
919
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 8.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
102.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Alaska average
D
City profile score · Delta Junction, AK
48/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income B-
$85,694
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
102.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Delta Junction profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 65/100 (B-) · $85,694
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 45/100 (D) · 23.8%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
How does Delta Junction compare to other US cities?
Where Delta Junction sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income67% higher than other cities
Home value59% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Delta Junction against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Alaska only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Alaska-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Delta Junction near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Delta Junction ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Delta Junction only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#60 of 215
72nd percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#72 of 200
64th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#123 of 225
44th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#76 of 228
66th percentile in Alaska
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Alaska only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
67th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Delta Junction's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$268,70041st percentilemore affordable than 41% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Delta Junction's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,369 of 15,516
More affordable than 53% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,124 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.1×, Delta Junction sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,369 of 15,516 and #6,124 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$85,694Delta Junction, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Delta Junction, AK median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Delta Junction, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,154
Median Income
$85,694
Median Home Value
$268,700
Median Age
36.1
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
57.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.8%
Climate
Avg Temperature
27.3°F
Annual Precipitation
11.8"
Annual Snowfall
42.2"
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Delta Junction's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
919 residents
2021
942 residents
2022
946 residents
2023
955 residents
2024
971 residents
2025
977 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
77.6%
Carpool
11.0%
Public Transit
1.7%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
7.1%
Other
1.9%
Based on 535 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Alaska statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $271
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Alaska at $271 (electricity about $131 , water and sewer about $45 ).
These are Alaska statewide averages, not a meter reading for Delta Junction. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Alaska's BEA cost-of-living index is 102.4 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Delta Junction is $1,467/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Alaska statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 35.2 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Alaska statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Delta Junction sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Delta Junction compares to similar-size Alaska cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.