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SheetKY-ANCHORAGE-KY · Anchorage, KY 2,421 pop · income 99th 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 Anchorage
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Anchorage on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fulton · lowest
36,037
Fulton · lowest
36,037 median HH income
16.7% of the leader · rank #1
Governors Club · near
214,643
Governors Club · near
214,643 median HH income
99.5% of the leader · rank #2
Oradell · near
214,736
Oradell · near
214,736 median HH income
99.5% of the leader · rank #3
Wynnewood · near
214,857
Wynnewood · near
214,857 median HH income
99.6% of the leader · rank #4
Anchorage · this city
215,156
Anchorage · this city
215,156 median HH income
99.7% of the leader · rank #5
Pepper Pike · near
215,373
Pepper Pike · near
215,373 median HH income
99.8% of the leader · rank #6
Bronxville · highest
215,726
Bronxville · highest
215,726 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 Anchorage 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: 2,421.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Anchorage - the verdict
Nationally, Anchorage sits in the 99th percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
95th
percentile, home value
10th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Anchorage, KY
2,421 people live in Anchorage, Kentucky - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $215,156 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.7%. Anchorage's housing stock carries a median value of $827,000, and the median resident age is 41.2 years. About 80.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Anchorage reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 648.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in Kentucky run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Kentucky at 90.2 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $984 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Kentucky's average monthly utility costs around $225 (state average). On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 44.2 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Anchorage'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income 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 Anchorage, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Is Anchorage growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +47 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.9% 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 upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Which cities make useful reference points for Anchorage?
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 Kentucky, the closest population matches are Hardinsburg (2,404 residents, $56,774 income); Junction City (2,441 residents, $40,917 income); Carlisle (2,356 residents, $46,292 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Clayton, GA (2,420 residents); Charlevoix, MI (2,420 residents); Wolfeboro, NH (2,420 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 Anchorage?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 62.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
How far does income reach against housing in Anchorage?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Anchorage?
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.
The NCES join finds 1 public school within the city match. 80.7% 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
1.7%
Bachelor's degree+
80.7%
Matched public schools
1
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Anchorage?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 648.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower 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
648.8
Violent rate
0.0
Property rate
648.8
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 A+
$215,156
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
80.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A
1.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cost of living A
90.2 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Anchorage profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $215,156
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 80.7%
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Poverty rate: 88/100 (A) · 1.7%
Cost of living: 85/100 (A) · 90.2 index
Where Anchorage sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Anchorage'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 - Anchorage highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Anchorage, KY (this city): home $827,000, crime 649/100k
Clayton, GA : home $228,100, crime 3,164/100k
Charlevoix, MI : home $294,400, crime 1,662/100k
Wolfeboro, NH : home $363,200, crime 614/100k
Springdale, SC : home $89,900, crime 3,169/100k
Hardinsburg, KY : home $128,400, crime 648/100k
Carlisle, KY : home $103,300, crime 236/100k
Horse Cave, KY : home $93,600, crime 176/100k
Fulton, KY : home $61,200, crime 3,001/100k
How does Anchorage compare to other US cities?
Here's how Anchorage stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value95% pricier than other cities
Median rent10% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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 Kentucky, Anchorage ranks #76 of 181 Kentucky 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 Anchorage against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Kentucky only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Kentucky-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Anchorage near the bottom of Kentucky's cities
Among the 520 Kentucky cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Anchorage ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Anchorage only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#7 of 485
99th percentile in Kentucky
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 520
0th percentile in Kentucky
Median Home Value
#3 of 484
99th percentile in Kentucky
Poverty Rate
#424 of 519
18th percentile in Kentucky
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#13 of 520
98th percentile in Kentucky
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 Kentucky only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Anchorage's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Anchorage'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 Anchorage's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$827,0005th percentilemore affordable than 5% 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
Anchorage's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,213 of 15,516
More affordable than 34% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,054 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.8×, Anchorage sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,213 of 15,516 and #8,054 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
$215,156Anchorage, KY median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Anchorage, KY median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Anchorage, KY.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)80.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,421
Median Income
$215,156
Median Home Value
$827,000
Median Age
41.2
Poverty Rate
1.7%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
80.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
648.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
648.8
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.
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
Anchorage's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,500 residents
2021
2,489 residents
2022
2,488 residents
2023
2,509 residents
2024
2,539 residents
2025
2,547 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
62.3%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
27.3%
Other
0.6%
Based on 1,024 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Kentucky statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Kentucky at $225 (electricity about $115 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are Kentucky statewide averages, not a meter reading for Anchorage. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Kentucky's BEA cost-of-living index is 90.2 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Anchorage is $984/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Kentucky statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 44.2 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Kentucky statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Anchorage sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Anchorage compares to similar-size Kentucky 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, 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.