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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 +41.3% YoY. inventory, +16.2% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is up 41.3% YoY while the median home got up 64.9% bigger, so value per square foot is up 2.1%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 99508 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 46.8% of this ZIP's 12,702 occupied households, on a median household income of $79K.
| Measure | ZIP 99508 | Anchorage Municipality | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $79K | $103K | -$24K |
| Below Poverty Level | 18.3% | 8.9% | +9.4% |
| Median Age | 32.30 | 35.20 | -2.90 |
| Total Population | 36,458 | 288,976 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.75 | 2.59 | +0.16 |
| Owner-Occupied | 53.2% | 63.9% | -10.7% |
| Worked From Home | 9.9% | 10.9% | -1.0% |
| Mean Commute | 17.60 | 18.80 | -1.20 |
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.