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Housing in Emmonak

A typical Emmonak home is worth roughly $112,000

No new homes were permitted in 2022.

Typical home value
$112K
AK $399K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$970
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$199
AK $3,901

What kind of housing town is Emmonak?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 1.9 years of income

Less than across Alaska (4.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$250,000
Typical Emmonak home $112K

That covers a typical Emmonak home, with $138K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$610
Loan $560Tax $20Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $360 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Emmonak’s typical property tax (0.20% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

79% of Emmonak households own their home

Half of Emmonak’s homes were built before 1996.

Owners and renters
Own 79%Rent 21%

Alaska: 67% own.

1996
typical home built · AK 1986
$199
median property tax bill · AK $3,901
0.20%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · AK 1.11%
3%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $970

Renters already here pay a median of $890.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$770
2 bedrooms$970
3 bedrooms$1,350
4 bedrooms$1,600
21%
of households rent · AK 33%
37
renter households
$890
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Kusilvak Census Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2022

No permits for new homes were issued in Emmonak in 2022 or in any year since 2013.

Single-family
01 201320152020
0
new homes permitted in 2022
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—

Emmonak's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2022, so the 2022 figures are Census estimates.

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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