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SheetAK-SAXMAN-AK · Saxman, AK 354 pop · income 19th 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 Saxman
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Saxman on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Creal Springs · lowest
43,333
Creal Springs · lowest
43,333 median HH income
32.7% of the leader · rank #1
Saxman · this city
49,808
Saxman · this city
49,808 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #2
Grayhawk · near
49,808
Grayhawk · near
49,808 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #3
St. Charles · near
49,816
St. Charles · near
49,816 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #4
Cynthiana · near
49,817
Cynthiana · near
49,817 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #5
Marshall · near
49,817
Marshall · near
49,817 median HH income
37.6% of the leader · rank #6
King Salmon · highest
132,500
King Salmon · highest
132,500 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 Saxman 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: 354.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Saxman lands in the 19th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
19th
percentile, household income
62nd
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: Saxman, AK
Alaska's Saxman is a small town, with 354 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $49,808 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 15.9%. Home values in Saxman run a median of $284,400, and the median resident age is 48.4 years. 5.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 31.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Alaska tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Alaska scores 102.4 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,467 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Alaska run around $271, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Saxman workers runs 20.2 minutes, with 69.0% driving alone and 0.0% 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 Saxman'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Saxman, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Saxman?
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 5.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Saxman?
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 King Salmon (354 residents, $132,500 income); South Van Horn (354 residents, $66,944 income); St. Paul (362 residents, $98,750 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Akron, AL (354 residents); Junction City, GA (354 residents); Creal Springs, IL (354 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Saxman?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 20.2 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -9 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -2.3% 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.
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.
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.
Poverty rate F
15.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$49,808
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
5.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Saxman profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 29/100 (F) · 102.4 index
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.9%
Household income: 20/100 (F) · $49,808
Bachelor's+ share: 0/100 (F) · 5.2%
How does Saxman compare to other US cities?
Where Saxman sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income19% higher than other cities
Home value62% 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 Saxman 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 Saxman near the bottom of Alaska's cities
Among the 228 Alaska cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Saxman ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Saxman only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#168 of 215
22nd percentile in Alaska
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 228
0th percentile in Alaska
Median Home Value
#61 of 200
70th percentile in Alaska
Poverty Rate
#81 of 225
64th percentile in Alaska
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#172 of 228
24th 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
19th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Saxman's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$284,40038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Saxman's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#13,822 of 15,516
More affordable than 11% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,301 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 5.7×, Saxman sits in the pressured band:
national rank #13,822 of 15,516 and #10,301 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$49,808Saxman, AK median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Saxman, 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 Saxman, AK.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)5.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)31.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
354
Median Income
$49,808
Median Home Value
$284,400
Median Age
48.4
Poverty Rate
15.9%
Labor force participation
31.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
5.2%
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Saxman's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
385 residents
2021
383 residents
2022
381 residents
2023
381 residents
2024
379 residents
2025
376 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
20.2 minutes
Drive Alone
69.0%
Carpool
12.6%
Public Transit
5.7%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
0.0%
Other
9.3%
Based on 87 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 Saxman. 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 Saxman 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 Saxman sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Saxman 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.