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Place dossier plate
SheetAK-FARM-LOOP-AK · Farm Loop, AK 2,940 pop · income 83rd 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 Farm Loop
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Farm Loop on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Wise · lowest
44,234
Wise · lowest
44,234 median HH income
33.2% of the leader · rank #1
Bonsall · near
110,316
Bonsall · near
110,316 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #2
Farm Loop · this city
110,332
Farm Loop · this city
110,332 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #3
Tullahassee · near
110,333
Tullahassee · near
110,333 median HH income
82.8% of the leader · rank #4
Armada · near
110,345
Armada · near
110,345 median HH income
82.9% of the leader · rank #5
Lowry Crossing · near
110,357
Lowry Crossing · near
110,357 median HH income
82.9% of the leader · rank #6
Lake Point · highest
133,175
Lake Point · highest
133,175 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 Farm Loop 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: 2,940.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Farm Loop places in the 83rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
83rd
percentile, household income
77th
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: Farm Loop, AK
Farm Loop is a small town in Alaska, home to 2,940 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Farm Loop households earn a median of $110,332 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 6.1%. Typical homes in Farm Loop are valued around $393,300, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. 37.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,467 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alaska run around $271, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Farm Loop report an average commute of 26.5 minutes, with 73.1% driving alone and 12.2% working from home. Natural-hazard exposure scores 35.2 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Farm Loop'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 work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Farm Loop, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Farm Loop?
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 73.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.5 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Farm Loop?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.1%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Farm Loop?
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Kotzebue (3,046 residents, $106,328 income); Ester (2,784 residents, $67,640 income); Eielson AFB (3,133 residents, $59,716 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Wendell, ID (2,940 residents); Wise, VA (2,940 residents); Buzzards Bay, MA (2,941 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.
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 A-
$110,332
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate C
6.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
Farm Loop profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 81/100 (A-) · $110,332
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.7%
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.1%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
How does Farm Loop compare to other US cities?
Farm Loop measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income83% higher than other cities
Home value77% 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 Farm Loop 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 Farm Loop near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Farm Loop ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Farm Loop only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#13 of 215
94th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#17 of 200
92nd percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#150 of 225
33rd percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#23 of 228
89th 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
83rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Farm Loop's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$393,30023rd percentilemore affordable than 23% 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
Farm Loop's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,234 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,420 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Farm Loop sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,234 of 15,516 and #7,420 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
$110,332Farm Loop, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Farm Loop, 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 Farm Loop, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.1%
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
2,940
Median Income
$110,332
Median Home Value
$393,300
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
6.1%
Labor force participation
57.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.5 minutes
Drive Alone
73.1%
Carpool
9.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
12.2%
Other
3.7%
Based on 1,347 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 Farm Loop. 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 Farm Loop 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 Farm Loop sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Farm Loop 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, 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.