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Median household income in Bethel Census Area
$73,996
as of January 2024 · annual · acs5
▲ 4.8% vs prior · ▲ 4.8% vs a year earlier
Series median_household_income.bethel_census_area.acs5
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Recent values
| Date | Median household income |
|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | $73,996 |
| 2023-01-01 | $70,616 |
| 2022-01-01 | $64,094 |
| 2021-01-01 | $57,460 |
| 2020-01-01 | $54,400 |
| 2019-01-01 | $53,553 |
| 2018-01-01 | $54,212 |
| 2017-01-01 | $53,853 |
| 2016-01-01 | $53,296 |
| 2015-01-01 | $51,012 |
| 2014-01-01 | $51,930 |
| 2013-01-01 | $51,689 |
| 2012-01-01 | $52,349 |
| 2011-01-01 | $52,063 |
| 2010-01-01 | $52,214 |
Related series
- Poverty rateThe American Community Survey's picture of what a place earns and what it costs to live there. All four carry the same small-sample volatility, so compare them with each other rather than reading any one alone.
- Median gross rent
- Median home value
Median household income elsewhere
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- Kusilvak Census Area
- Lake and Peninsula Borough
- City and Borough of Juneau
More about Bethel Census Area
About this data
A curated handful of American Community Survey socioeconomic indicators for Alaska: median household income, poverty rate, median gross rent, and median home value. 1-year estimates for the statewide and Anchorage headline numbers; 5-year estimates to fill in every borough/census area (most are far below the 65k-population threshold for 1-year data). This is where "how much does an Alaska household earn" and "what share of Alaskans are poor" come from.
Known issues & gotchas
- An API key is now mandatory — verified 2026-08-06: keyless requests return "A valid key must be included with each data API request" (the old ~500-calls/day keyless allowance is gone). Key lives in env var
CENSUS_API_KEY; free from api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html. - JSON is row-oriented arrays with a header row (not objects), and every value is a string — cast numerics.
- Sentinel values, not nulls:
-666666666(and the-222222222/-888888888family) mean suppressed/unavailable — filter before casting or bounds checks will fire. - There is no 2020 1-year ACS (COVID response collapse; only experimental estimates) — a permanent gap year in every 1-yr series. Don't let the freshness monitor or interpolation paper over it.
- Endpoint year is part of the URL path (
/data/2024/acs/acs1) — connector must construct URLs per vintage and probe for the new year each September/December. - Variable IDs can shift between subject-table vintages (S-tables more than B-tables); re-verify
S1701_C03_001E(poverty rate percent) at build time. Detail tables B19013 (median HH income), B25064 (median gross rent), B25077 (median home value) are long-stable. - Anchorage as a *plac