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A tight-supply market with no rental pool to price against. Demand is visible here; the rent math is not.
What would change this read: the median listing price is +39.2% YoY. inventory, +55.6% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 39.2% YoY while the median home got up 15.7% bigger, so value per square foot is down 2.8%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 99503 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 68.2% of this ZIP's 6,103 occupied households, on a median household income of $76K.
| Measure | ZIP 99503 | Anchorage Municipality | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $76K | $103K | -$27K |
| Below Poverty Level | 16.4% | 8.9% | +7.5% |
| Median Age | 36.50 | 35.20 | +1.30 |
| Total Population | 12,964 | 288,976 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.08 | 2.59 | -0.51 |
| Owner-Occupied | 31.8% | 63.9% | -32.1% |
| Worked From Home | 7.1% | 10.9% | -3.8% |
| Mean Commute | 16.10 | 18.80 | -2.70 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.0% to 288,976: residents under 18 are down 1.0% and those 65 and over are up 3.5%.
County median household income is $103K, 8.9% of residents are below the poverty level, 10.9% work from home.