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Income Poverty By Community

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    Description

    This dataset contains community-level per capita income and poverty status estimates for communities in Alaska derived from U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year data. It provides estimated per capita income alongside population counts for individuals living below the federal poverty level and total individuals evaluated for poverty status (determined using reported income from the preceding 12 months of the ACD 5-year interval end year), with associated margins of error for each metric. All monetary metrics are inflation-adjusted to the period end year and are organized by community FIPS code, community name and ACS survey time period.

    Published

    2026

    Topics

    Social

    Keywords

    Community Income Census Population Economy

    Format

    csv

    Licenses

    This work is licensed under CC-BY-4.0

    Contributors

    Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
    2025 • Data Curator

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

    Source Code: acep-aedg/aedg-etl-2024
    Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)
    2026 • Data Curator

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

    Source Code: acep-aedg/aedg-metadata

    Sources

    Alaska Communities
    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.
    Places (Cities and CDPs) Shapefile
    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.
    American Community Survey Income and Poverty
    Population counts in Alaskan communities that fall under poverty status measures 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, Poverty Data and Alaska American Community Survey Data

    Fields (10)

    Long Name Description Field Name Type Unit
    Community FIPS Code 5-digit Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS) code identifier for places, assigned and maintained by the Census Bureau community_fips_code string
    Community Name Name of the community name string
    Per Capita Income Estimated per capita income (adjusted for inflation to survey end year) estimated_per_capita_income integer USD
    Per Capita Income Margin of Error Margin of error for estimated per capita income margin_error_per_capita_income integer USD
    Population Below Poverty Level Estimated population with income below the federal poverty level estimated_population_below_poverty integer persons
    Population Below Poverty Level Margin of Error Margin of error for estimated population with income below the federal poverty level margin_error_population_below_poverty integer persons
    Population Evaluated for Poverty Status Estimated total population for whom poverty status is determined estimated_population_poverty_determined integer persons
    Population Evaluated for Poverty Status Margin of Error Margin of error for estimated population for whom poverty status is determined margin_error_popuation_poverty_determined integer persons
    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
    community_fips_code name estimated_per_capita_income margin_error_per_capita_income estimated_population_below_poverty margin_error_population_below_poverty estimated_population_poverty_determined margin_error_popuation_poverty_determined start_year end_year

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