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SheetAK-KALIFORNSKY-AK · Kalifornsky, AK 8,136 pop · income 72nd pct · 14 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 Kalifornsky
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kalifornsky on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Travelers Rest · lowest
49,655
Travelers Rest · lowest
49,655 median HH income
45.0% of the leader · rank #1
Seneca · near
91,065
Seneca · near
91,065 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #2
East Avon · near
91,071
East Avon · near
91,071 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #3
Bennetts Swit… · near
91,076
Bennetts Swit… · near
91,076 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #4
Penn Estates · near
91,080
Penn Estates · near
91,080 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #5
Kalifornsky · this city
91,081
Kalifornsky · this city
91,081 median HH income
82.5% of the leader · rank #6
Sterling · highest
110,341
Sterling · highest
110,341 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 Kalifornsky 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: 8,136.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Kalifornsky lands in the 72nd percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
72nd
percentile, household income
66th
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: Kalifornsky, AK
8,136 people live in Kalifornsky, Alaska - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $91,081 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.9%. Typical homes in Kalifornsky are valued around $306,200, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. About 31.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 59.8% 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,467 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $271 across Alaska, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Kalifornsky report an average commute of 21.0 minutes, with 71.2% driving alone and 7.9% 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 Kalifornsky'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kalifornsky, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Within-city variation
What can 14 Census tracts reveal inside Kalifornsky?
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.
PlainCities matches 14 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Kalifornsky?
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Ketchikan (8,151 residents, $76,835 income); Sitka (8,393 residents, $101,207 income); Kenai (7,562 residents, $74,907 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Travelers Rest, SC (8,137 residents); Cleveland, TX (8,137 residents); Hillside, IL (8,133 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Kalifornsky?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.9%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Kalifornsky?
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 71.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.0 minutes.
Above median income · poverty 7.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
102.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Alaska average
C-
City profile score · Kalifornsky, AK
53/100
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
$91,081
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
7.9%
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Kalifornsky profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $91,081
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.7%
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 7.9%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
How does Kalifornsky compare to other US cities?
Here's how Kalifornsky stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income72% higher than other cities
Home value66% 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 Kalifornsky 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 Kalifornsky near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kalifornsky ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kalifornsky only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#45 of 215
79th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#47 of 200
77th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#134 of 225
40th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#39 of 228
83rd 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
72nd percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Kalifornsky's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$306,20034th percentilemore affordable than 34% 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
Kalifornsky's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,397 of 15,516
More affordable than 46% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#6,839 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Kalifornsky sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,397 of 15,516 and #6,839 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
$91,081Kalifornsky, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kalifornsky, 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 Kalifornsky, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,136
Median Income
$91,081
Median Home Value
$306,200
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
7.9%
Labor force participation
59.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.0 minutes
Drive Alone
71.2%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
7.9%
Other
8.2%
Based on 3,828 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 Kalifornsky. 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 Kalifornsky 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 Kalifornsky sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kalifornsky 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.