A typical Hoonah home is worth roughly $329,000
Builders were permitted 17 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Hoonah?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 4.1 years of income
About the same as across Alaska. Try your own numbers below.
That’s $23K short of a typical Hoonah home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,460 a month here, $570 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Alaska typical property tax (1.11% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,460
Renters already here pay a median of $1,316, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
17 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 17 new homes in Hoonah in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $5 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Hoonah has permitted 57 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 15 | 5 | 10 | $3.3 million |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 0 | $5 million |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $832,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 | $741,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $308,000 |
| 2020 | 21 | 5 | 16 | $8.5 million |
| 2019 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $949,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $492,000 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $458,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
64% of Hoonah households own their home
Half of Hoonah’s homes were built before 1982.
Alaska: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Hoonah buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.