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Poverty rate in Alaska
10.1%
as of January 2024 · annual · 5-year estimate
▼ 0.1pt vs prior · ▼ 0.1pt vs a year earlier
Series poverty_rate.ak.acs5
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History since 2012
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Recent values
| Date | Poverty rate |
|---|---|
| 2024-01-01 | 10.1% |
| 2023-01-01 | 10.2% |
| 2022-01-01 | 10.5% |
| 2021-01-01 | 10.4% |
| 2020-01-01 | 10.3% |
| 2019-01-01 | 10.7% |
| 2018-01-01 | 10.8% |
| 2017-01-01 | 10.2% |
| 2016-01-01 | 10.1% |
| 2015-01-01 | 10.2% |
| 2014-01-01 | 10.1% |
| 2013-01-01 | 9.9% |
| 2012-01-01 | 9.6% |
Related series
- Median household incomeThe 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
Poverty rate elsewhere
- Alaska
- Aleutians East Borough
- Aleutians West Census Area
- Bethel Census Area
- Bristol Bay Borough
- City and Borough of Juneau
- City and Borough of Sitka
- City and Borough of Wrangell
- City and Borough of Yakutat
More about Alaska
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