Anchor Point, Alaska.
Typical home $262,062 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,343 +5%
- $250,719$262,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,655 +3%
- $253,407$262,062 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Anchor Point$1,375
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Anchor Point, AK rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Anchor Point, in Kenai Peninsula Borough, had 2,105 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $63,000 a year and half less, against $80,538 across Kenai Peninsula Borough; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Kenai Peninsula Borough was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Anchor Point is a small community on the Kenai Peninsula, and its residents are older than in most American towns. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run below the borough's. Winters are cold and very snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers stay cool, with July the warmest month and highs staying mild.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Across the Kenai Peninsula Borough, some of the largest workplaces are Central Peninsula General Hospital, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District and South Peninsula Hospital. Unemployment across the borough is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. The Anchor River is a river a short drive away, and the Pratt Museum, a museum, is also a short drive off. Kachemak Bay State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Deep Creek State Recreation Area, another protected area.
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- 1,044households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kenai Peninsula Borough had 21,722 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 18°; warmest in July, with highs near 60° and lows near 47°. About 101 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Homer Northwest weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Central Peninsula General HospitalGeneral hospital1,116FTE
- Kenai Peninsula Borough School DistrictSchool district1,112FTE
- South Peninsula HospitalCritical access hospital448FTE
- Kenaitze Indian TribeAmerican indian or alaska native tribal councils400
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters301
- Marathon Petroleum CompanyPetroleum refineries262
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- State of Alaska138
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 42 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,331 people in all across the county; Anchor Point has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- EarthquakesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anchor Point’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Kenai Peninsula Borough.
Anchor Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anchor Point$262,062
- Alaska$397,932
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Anchor Point listings — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Anchor Point22.87%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anchor Point54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Anchor Point9
Zip codes with a Anchor Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anchor Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.