County Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska was $100,625. An estimated 1.4% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 14.5% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 86.9% of households received earnings. An estimated 27.9% of households received Social Security and an estimated 15.5 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $20,254. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 9.7 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 8.5% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 5% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 10.9% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 5.3 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 20% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 60% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 26.7% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska in 2019-2023, 80.5% had health insurance coverage and 19.5% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 62% and public coverage was 30.4%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 4.7%.

In 2019-2023, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska had a total population of 878 - 342 (39%) females and 536 (61%) males. The median age was 39.3 years. An estimated 16.6% of the population was under 18 years, 38% was 19 to 44 years, 31.1% was 45 to 64 years, and 13.8 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 283 households in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska. The average household size was 2.45 people.

Married-couple households made up 50.2% of the households in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska while cohabiting couple households made up 10.6% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 12.7% of all households, while 26.5% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 23.3% of households were male householders living alone, and 5.3% were female householders living alone, for a total of 28.6% of all households.

In Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, 19.1% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 31.8% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 90.7% of the people living in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska were U.S. natives. 45.1% of the Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 9.3% of Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 48.8% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 63.4 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska.

Among people at least five years old living in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska in 2019-2023, 16.2 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 2.8% of people at least five years old; 2.3% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 77.3 % of the people at least one year old living in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 95 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 25.1% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 5.1% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska was 118 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 15 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 80. College or graduate school enrollment was 23.

In Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 16 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 4.8% of people under 18 years old, to 10% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 58.7% of those 65 and over.

In Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska, 60.9 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 34.8% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 60.5% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 35.1% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 4 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska worked in the following industries:

An estimated 59.4% of Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 6.9% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 9.8 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska had a total of 831 housing units. Of these housing units, 80.5% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 13.6% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 5.9% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

1.7% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 2.9% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska was 4 rooms, and of these housing units 37.2% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska had 283 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 548 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 51.9% while renters occupied 48.1%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.78 and in renter-occupied houses it was 2.08.

12% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 16.3% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 10.6% and another 27.2% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska was $269,800.

Of the owner-occupied households, 29.3 % had a mortgage. 70.7% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $2,288 and for owners without a mortgage it was $608.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Bristol Bay Borough, Alaska was $1,318. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.