Household Income By Community

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Description

This dataset contains community-level household income and benefits estimates for Alaska derived from U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data. It provides total household counts, median household income, and household distributions across income brackets ranging from under $10,000 to $200,000 or more. All income categories and monetary metrics include both household income and benefits, inflation-adjusted to the period end year and are organized by FIPS code, community name, and ACS survey time period.

Published

2026

Topics

Social

Keywords

Economy Income Population Census Community

Format

csv

Licenses

This work is licensed under CC-BY-4.0

Contributors

1. Identified data source and integrated it into the data pipeline.
2. Complied community names, locations, and FIPS identifiers for AEDG
3. Joined household_income data with AEDG communities to create this dataset

Documented sources and defined the data dictionary using OEMetadata (Frictionless) formatted metadata https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15019561.

Sources

The Alaska Communities dataset is the reference list of place locations, represented as points, used by the Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs (DCRA). In includes community locations but for historical reasons, it is a mix of Communities, Places of Interest, Borough/Census Area as well as Alaska centroid. DCRA uses it to link communities to their internal key GUID used elsewhere in their systems. AEDG uses this list to define canonical community names since, as free text, these can vary in different contexts, and to establish locations to use in spatial joins and relations.
This is an ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains place data from the 2020 US Census for Alaska. The definition of places includes all incorporated cities as well as Census Designated Places (CDPs). Each geographic unit is identified using Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) numbers. Coordinate System: North American Datum 1983 Alaska Albers. Source: 2020 US Census, PL94-171 Redistricting File; 2020 US Census Tiger Shapefiles. Documentation of field names: https://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/cen/maps/gis/Places2020.pdf. The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development has had a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Census Bureau since 1981 to assist with geographic programs and help Alaskans find Census Bureau data. AEDG uses this list to define canonical community locations to use in spatial joins and relations, to associate places with FIPS codes, and to establish total community population.
Population counts by household income in Alaskan communities for the last 12 months of the most recent ACS 5-year interval. This data has been visualized in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) format and is provided as a service in the DCRA Information Portal by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development Division of Community and Regional Affairs (SOA DCCED DCRA), Research and Analysis section. SOA DCCED DCRA Research and Analysis is not the authoritative source for this data. For more information and for questions about this data, see: US Census Bureau, Household Income and Alaska American Community Survey Data

Fields (16)

Long Name Description Field Name Type Unit
FIPS Code 5-digit Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code identifier for places and boroughs (counties), assigned and maintained by the Census Bureau fips_code string
Community Name Name of the community community_name string
Total Households Estimated total number of households e_households_total integer households
Median Household Income Estimated median household income (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_median_income integer USD
Household Income Under $10k Estimated households with income under $10,000 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_under_10000 integer households
Household Income $10,000–$14,999 Estimated households with income of $10,000 to $14,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_10000_14999 integer households
Household Income $15,000–$24,999 Estimated households with income of $15,000 to $24,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_15000_24999 integer households
Household Income $25,000–$34,999 Estimated households with income of $25,000 to $34,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_25000_34999 integer households
Household Income $35,000–$49,999 Estimated households with income of $35,000 to $49,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_35000_49999 integer households
Household Income $50,000–$74,999 Estimated households with income of $50,000 to $74,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_50000_74999 integer households
Household Income $75,000–$99,999 Estimated households with income of $75,000 to $99,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_75000_99999 integer households
Household Income $100,000–$149,999 Estimated households with income of $100,000 to $149,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_100000_149999 integer households
Household Income $150,000–$199,999 Estimated households with income of $150,000 to $199,999 (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_150000_199999 integer households
Household Income $200,000+ Estimated households with income of $200,000 or more (including benefits, adjusted for inflation to survey end year) e_household_inc_200000_plus integer households
ACS Start Year Start year of the 5-year ACS survey observation window start_year integer year
ACS End Year End year (vintage) of the 5-year ACS survey observation window end_year integer year
fips_code community_name e_households_total e_household_median_income e_household_inc_under_10000 e_household_inc_10000_14999 e_household_inc_15000_24999 e_household_inc_25000_34999 e_household_inc_35000_49999 e_household_inc_50000_74999 e_household_inc_75000_99999 e_household_inc_100000_149999 e_household_inc_150000_199999 e_household_inc_200000_plus start_year end_year

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Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Household Income By Community. Version v3.0. Alaska Energy Data Gateway, 2026. https://akenergygateway.alaska.edu/explore/data/public_household_income. Accessed September 21, 2026.

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