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Place dossier plate
SheetAK-KODIAK-STATION-AK · Kodiak Station, AK 1,941 pop · income 79th 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 Kodiak Station
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kodiak Station on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Ossun · lowest
40,283
Ossun · lowest
40,283 median HH income
36.0% of the leader · rank #1
Terrebonne · near
102,045
Terrebonne · near
102,045 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #2
Wilson · near
102,055
Wilson · near
102,055 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #3
Kodiak Station · this city
102,069
Kodiak Station · this city
102,069 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #4
Amesti · near
102,083
Amesti · near
102,083 median HH income
91.3% of the leader · rank #5
Valley Green · near
102,094
Valley Green · near
102,094 median HH income
91.4% of the leader · rank #6
Atlantis · highest
111,750
Atlantis · highest
111,750 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 Kodiak Station 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: 1,941.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Kodiak Station places in the 79th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
79th
percentile, household income
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: Kodiak Station, AK
Alaska's Kodiak Station is a small town, with 1,941 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Kodiak Station report a median income of $102,069 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.6%. The median resident age is 25.1 years. Educational attainment runs 35.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 35.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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 Kodiak Station workers runs 8.1 minutes, with 70.2% driving alone and 0.6% 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 Kodiak Station'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 comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kodiak Station, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Kodiak Station?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 8.1 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 Kodiak Station?
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 Prudhoe Bay (1,971 residents); Deltana (2,064 residents, $95,927 income); Dillingham (2,084 residents, $99,097 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Monticello, UT (1,941 residents); Grove Hill, AL (1,940 residents); Atlantis, FL (1,940 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.
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+
$102,069
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B
3.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B-
35.2%
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).
Kodiak Station profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $102,069
Poverty rate: 74/100 (B) · 3.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 67/100 (B-) · 35.2%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
How does Kodiak Station compare to other US cities?
Kodiak Station measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income79% higher 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 Kodiak Station 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 Kodiak Station near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kodiak Station ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kodiak Station only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#21 of 215
90th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#172 of 225
24th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#31 of 228
86th 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
79th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Income distribution context
$102,069Kodiak Station, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kodiak Station, 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 Kodiak Station, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)35.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)35.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,941
Median Income
$102,069
Median Home Value
N/A
Median Age
25.1
Poverty Rate
3.6%
Labor force participation
35.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
35.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
8.1 minutes
Drive Alone
70.2%
Carpool
13.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
12.9%
Work from Home
0.6%
Other
3.1%
Based on 1,090 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 Kodiak Station. 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 Kodiak Station 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 Kodiak Station sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kodiak Station 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.