City safety & data profile
FairbanksAK
Fairbanks, AK is a 32K-resident city in Fairbanks North Star Borough with a median household income of $73,534.
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Fairbanks, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Fairbanks has a population larger than 66% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $268,400, and 1 hospital serving the surrounding area.
- 32K
- Population (place)
- Top 34%
- By size
- $73,534
- Median income (place)
- $268,400
- Median home (place)
- 8.7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Fairbanks
Fairbanks posts a median household income higher than 42% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 hospital serves the Fairbanks area.
- Bottom 43%
- by median income, US cities
- 1
- hospital in & near Fairbanks
Composite score · Fairbanks, AK
36/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
Comparative score against cities tracked on Areazine on Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary) — every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
Where Fairbanks income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$73,534 Bottom 42% higher than 42% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
The quick read
Reading Fairbanks, AK beyond the headline numbers
Fairbanks sits inside Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, at roughly 64.84°N, -147.72°W. Population 32,325, $73,534 median household income. Median home value $268,400, median rent $1,496. Poverty rate 8.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
1 hospital in/around Fairbanks, 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER.
At 8.7%, poverty in Fairbanks, AK runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
The median home in Fairbanks costs roughly 3.7 times median household income, below the midpoint for reporting cities, so ownership remains reachable on a typical local wage.
Only 5.3% of Fairbanks workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 18.6% in Fairbanks, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
Fairbanks's median age is 29 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Fairbanks from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Fairbanks North Star Borough): Fairbanks's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economics
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 8.7% -30% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.2% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 26.2% |
| Work From Home | 5.3% |
| Public Transit | 1.1% |
Population
Health Profile 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Hospitals 1 total
What alerts and safety updates affect Fairbanks?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Fairbanks right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet AK-FAIRBANKS · Fairbanks
Fairbanks: no area-tagged alerts on record — state hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Fairbanks; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Alaska state hubs · Methodology
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Fairbanks, both outside Alaska so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside AK (8.7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside AK ($73,534 here).
Compare Fairbanks with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
Nearby Cities 8
Using Fairbanks's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Fairbanks area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare Fairbanks against Alaska peers on any ranking lens. Explore Alaska
Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Fairbanks North Star Borough) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.