Point Lay, AK
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Point Lay, AK: 1 USPS ZIP, population 189. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
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ACS city ledger plate
Sheet POINT-LAY-AK · Point Lay, AK 1 ZIPs · 189 pop · #3829/25278 · North Slope
INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-HIGH $104,063
- RANK-TOP #3829/25278
- ABOVE-PEER over Anaktuvuk Pass
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-LOW 46% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 189
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $119,100
Nearest income peer: Anaktuvuk Pass, AK ( $8,563 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Point Lay
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Point Lay on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Point Hope · lowest
Point Hope · lowest
$74,844 median HH income
- Wainwright · near
Wainwright · near
$93,750 median HH income
- Kaktovik · near
Kaktovik · near
$93,750 median HH income
- Anaktuvuk Pass · near
Anaktuvuk Pass · near
$95,500 median HH income
- Point Lay · this city
Point Lay · this city
$104,063 median HH income
- Barrow · highest
Barrow · highest
$115,313 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Point Lay, AK sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- Top 15%
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 189
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $104,063
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $104,063 and home value $119,100 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 10.2%.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (45.8%) for this income tier, rent $1,042 may matter more than the home-value average.
Within Alaska, Anchorage is the closest lower-income city and Healy the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 10 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Point Lay.
Population concentration
Point Lay reads through its lone ZIP, 99759
189 ACS residents, one ZIP: 99759 is not the leading code inside Point Lay, it is the only one on file. Treat the ZIP page as the primary source for anything below the city-wide total.
Census ZBP business roll-up
No ZBP establishments filed for Point Lay's ZIPs
Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Point Lay. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.
ZIP Codes in Point Lay, AK
These ZIP codes sit in North Slope, which covers 11 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Point Lay. See the North Slope roll-up →
Point Lay sits in the upper half of North Slope on income: Point Hope, Wainwright and Nuiqsut report less, while Barrow reports more. Point Hope marks the far end of that range at $74,844, 28% below Point Lay.
| ZIP Code | Population | Median income | Establishments | Density |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99759 | 189 | $104,063 | n/a | 3 |
Point Lay roll-ups here are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial or relocation advice. ACS and Census ZBP figures are estimates; confirm the current table against Census before a money or move decision involving Point Lay, .