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SheetAK-HAINES-AK · Haines, AK 1,781 pop · income 53rd pct · 1 tracts
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 Haines
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Haines on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mariano Colón… · lowest
15,870
Mariano Colón… · lowest
15,870 median HH income
15.4% of the leader · rank #1
Rosemead · near
72,248
Rosemead · near
72,248 median HH income
70.0% of the leader · rank #2
Haines · this city
72,250
Haines · this city
72,250 median HH income
70.0% of the leader · rank #3
Aroma Park · near
72,250
Aroma Park · near
72,250 median HH income
70.0% of the leader · rank #4
Independence · near
72,250
Independence · near
72,250 median HH income
70.0% of the leader · rank #5
Alum Creek · near
72,250
Alum Creek · near
72,250 median HH income
70.0% of the leader · rank #6
Montverde · highest
103,250
Montverde · highest
103,250 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 Haines 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: 1,781.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Haines places in the 53rd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
53rd
percentile, household income
68th
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: Haines, AK
Haines is a small town in Alaska, home to 1,781 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $72,250 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.5%. Home values in Haines run a median of $321,000, and the median resident age is 49.4 years. About 37.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 41.9°F with 47.4 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alaska run around $271, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 14.0 minutes, with 60.5% driving alone and 10.4% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Haines'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 within-city variation to housing and income to schools and households to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Haines, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What can 1 Census tracts reveal inside Haines?
PlainCities matches 1 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
How far does income reach against housing in Haines?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 37.7% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Haines?
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.
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Willow (1,769 residents, $74,669 income); Point MacKenzie (1,728 residents); Houston (1,693 residents, $60,865 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are St. Francisville, LA (1,781 residents); Marble Hill, MO (1,781 residents); Wilmerding, PA (1,781 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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Haines?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 41.9°F, with 47.4 inches of precipitation. 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
35.2
Annual precipitation
47.4 in
Mean temperature
41.9°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Haines?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 60.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.0 minutes.
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.
Drive alone
60.5%
Work from home
10.4%
Public transit
1.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 653 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 0.5% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
102.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Alaska average
C+
City profile score · Haines, AK
61/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
37.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C-
$72,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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).
Haines profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 96/100 (A+) · 0.5%
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.7%
Household income: 52/100 (C-) · $72,250
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
How does Haines compare to other US cities?
Haines measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income53% higher than other cities
Home value68% 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 Haines 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 Haines near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Haines ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Haines only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#87 of 215
59th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#36 of 200
82nd percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#189 of 225
16th 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
53rd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Haines's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$321,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Haines's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,853 of 15,516
More affordable than 24% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#9,100 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.4×, Haines sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,853 of 15,516 and #9,100 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
$72,250Haines, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Haines, 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 Haines, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,781
Median Income
$72,250
Median Home Value
$321,000
Median Age
49.4
Poverty Rate
0.5%
Labor force participation
49.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.7%
Climate
Avg Temperature
41.9°F
Annual Precipitation
47.4"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.0 minutes
Drive Alone
60.5%
Carpool
11.3%
Public Transit
1.8%
Walk
11.3%
Work from Home
10.4%
Other
4.7%
Based on 653 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 Haines. 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 Haines 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 Haines sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Haines 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.