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Place dossier plate
SheetAK-NEW-STUYAHOK-AK · New Stuyahok, AK 466 pop · income 26th 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 New Stuyahok
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Stuyahok on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Plainview · lowest
43,750
Plainview · lowest
43,750 median HH income
63.9% of the leader · rank #1
New Stuyahok · this city
54,167
New Stuyahok · this city
54,167 median HH income
79.1% of the leader · rank #2
Raisin · near
54,167
Raisin · near
54,167 median HH income
79.1% of the leader · rank #3
Fanning Sprin… · near
54,167
Fanning Sprin… · near
54,167 median HH income
79.1% of the leader · rank #4
Colbert · near
54,167
Colbert · near
54,167 median HH income
79.1% of the leader · rank #5
Broadwell · near
54,167
Broadwell · near
54,167 median HH income
79.1% of the leader · rank #6
Kwigillingok · highest
68,438
Kwigillingok · highest
68,438 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 New Stuyahok 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: 466.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, New Stuyahok lands in the 26th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
26th
percentile, household income
12th
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: New Stuyahok, AK
466 people live in New Stuyahok, Alaska - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. New Stuyahok households earn a median of $54,167 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 30.0%. New Stuyahok's housing stock carries a median value of $108,000, and the median resident age is 30.0 years. 23.4% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 47.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 1 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alaska run around $271, per EIA 2023 residential energy 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 New Stuyahok'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to population change to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Stuyahok, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for New Stuyahok?
Within Alaska, the closest population matches are Angoon (467 residents, $45,938 income); Chevak (464 residents); Gambell (464 residents, $48,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Plainview, AR (466 residents); De Beque, CO (466 residents); Sulphur Springs, IN (466 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.
What does the journey to work look like in New Stuyahok?
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 50.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for New Stuyahok?
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 23.4% 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.
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
What can 1 Census tracts reveal inside New Stuyahok?
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.
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 New Stuyahok?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 30.0%, 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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
Household income
$54,167
Home value
$108,000
Value / income
2.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is New Stuyahok growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -36 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -7.0% 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.
Period change
-7.0%
2025 estimate
477
2020 estimate
513
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 30.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
102.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Alaska average
F
City profile score · New Stuyahok, AK
24/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.4%
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.
Household income F
$54,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
30.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
New Stuyahok profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.4%
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
Household income: 26/100 (F) · $54,167
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 30.0%
How does New Stuyahok compare to other US cities?
Here's how New Stuyahok stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income26% higher than other cities
Home value12% 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 New Stuyahok 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 New Stuyahok near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Stuyahok ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Stuyahok only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#151 of 215
29th percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#147 of 200
27th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#35 of 225
84th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#79 of 228
65th 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
26th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How New Stuyahok's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$108,000Among the most affordablemore affordable than 88% 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
New Stuyahok's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,608 of 15,516
More affordable than 90% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,541 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.0×, New Stuyahok sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,608 of 15,516 and #1,541 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$54,167New Stuyahok, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Stuyahok, 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 New Stuyahok, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)30.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)47.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
466
Median Income
$54,167
Median Home Value
$108,000
Median Age
30.0
Poverty Rate
30.0%
Labor force participation
47.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.4%
Schools
Total Schools
1
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Stuyahok's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
513 residents
2021
509 residents
2022
502 residents
2023
489 residents
2024
488 residents
2025
477 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
50.7%
Carpool
1.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
21.1%
Work from Home
1.4%
Other
25.4%
Based on 142 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 New Stuyahok. 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 New Stuyahok 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 New Stuyahok sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Stuyahok 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, 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.