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Place dossier plate
SheetAK-JUNEAU-AK · Juneau, AK 31,969 pop · income 78th pct · 6 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 Juneau
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Juneau on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Opelika · lowest
58,763
Opelika · lowest
58,763 median HH income
45.9% of the leader · rank #1
Hamilton · near
100,503
Hamilton · near
100,503 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #2
East Dennis · near
100,504
East Dennis · near
100,504 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #3
Juneau · this city
100,513
Juneau · this city
100,513 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #4
Newberry · near
100,513
Newberry · near
100,513 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #5
El Jebel · near
100,518
El Jebel · near
100,518 median HH income
78.5% of the leader · rank #6
Beverly Hills · highest
127,979
Beverly Hills · highest
127,979 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, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Juneau on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. 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: 31,969.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Juneau - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Juneau lands in the 78th percentile for household income and the 21st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
78th
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
70th
percentile, median rent
21st
percentile, safety
📝 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: Juneau, AK
31,969 people live in Juneau, Alaska - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Juneau households earn a median of $100,513 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.9%. Typical homes in Juneau are valued around $432,500, and the median resident age is 39.8 years. 40.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2606.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 42.1°F with 67.0 inches of precipitation per year and 87.6 inches of snowfall.
Alaska tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Alaska at 102.4 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). 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. The average commute for Juneau workers runs 13.8 minutes, with 64.9% driving alone and 12.4% working from home. 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 Juneau'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 population change to within-city variation to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Juneau, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Juneau growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -595 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.8% 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.
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Juneau?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 64.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 13.8 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Juneau?
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. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Fairbanks (32,242 residents, $72,077 income); Badger (19,033 residents, $98,042 income); Knik-Fairview (18,921 residents, $95,000 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Seaside, CA (31,964 residents); Duluth, GA (31,958 residents); Beverly Hills, CA (31,955 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Juneau?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.3×
Home value
$432,500
Household income
$100,513
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 42.1°F, with 67.0 inches of precipitation and 87.6 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
35.2
Annual precipitation
67.0 in
Mean temperature
42.1°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
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 15 public schools within the city match. 40.5% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.9%
Bachelor's degree+
40.5%
Matched public schools
15
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Juneau?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2606.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 14% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
2606.6
Violent rate
537.8
Property rate
2068.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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+
$100,513
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.9%
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 F
538 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Juneau profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 77/100 (B+) · $100,513
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 40.5%
Poverty rate: 66/100 (B-) · 4.9%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
Violent crime: 14/100 (F) · 538 /100k
Where Juneau sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Juneau's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Juneau highlighted among 26 peers.Read the chart values
Juneau, AK (this city): home $432,500, crime 2,607/100k
Seaside, CA : home $692,600, crime 1,346/100k
Duluth, GA : home $366,000, crime 1,363/100k
Beverly Hills, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 4,951/100k
Opelika, AL : home $213,700, crime 3,185/100k
Fairbanks, AK : home $255,700, crime 4,161/100k
New York, NY : home $751,700, crime 3,039/100k
Los Angeles, CA : home $879,500, crime 2,212/100k
Chicago, IL : home $315,200, crime 4,012/100k
Houston, TX : home $253,400, crime 5,442/100k
Phoenix, AZ : home $381,900, crime 3,125/100k
Philadelphia, PA : home $232,400, crime 5,457/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
San Diego, CA : home $848,500, crime 2,082/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
Fort Worth, TX : home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Seattle, WA : home $912,100, crime 5,783/100k
Denver, CO : home $586,700, crime 5,755/100k
Oklahoma City, OK : home $215,100, crime 3,570/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Washington, DC : home $724,600, crime 4,514/100k
How does Juneau compare to other US cities?
Here's how Juneau stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income78% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent70% pricier than other cities
Safety21% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Alaska, Juneau ranks #19 of 23 Alaska cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Juneau 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 Juneau near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Juneau ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Juneau only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#26 of 215
88th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#11 of 200
95th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#160 of 225
28th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#18 of 228
92nd 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
78th percentile nationally for median household income · 21st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Juneau's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Juneau's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Juneau's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$432,50020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Juneau's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,533 of 15,516
More affordable than 26% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,227 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.3×, Juneau sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,533 of 15,516 and #2,227 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$100,513Juneau, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Juneau, 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 Juneau, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
31,969
Median Income
$100,513
Median Home Value
$432,500
Median Age
39.8
Poverty Rate
4.9%
Labor force participation
62.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2606.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
537.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2068.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
42.1°F
Annual Precipitation
67.0"
Annual Snowfall
87.6"
Schools
Total Schools
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Juneau's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
32,204 residents
2021
31,975 residents
2022
31,710 residents
2023
31,439 residents
2024
31,586 residents
2025
31,609 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
13.8 minutes
Drive Alone
64.9%
Carpool
12.0%
Public Transit
2.4%
Walk
6.3%
Work from Home
12.4%
Other
2.0%
Based on 16,496 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 Juneau. 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 Juneau 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 Juneau sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Juneau 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, FBI UCR, 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.