Delta Junction, Alaska.
Typical home $327,132 (-3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$754 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,860 -4%
- $339,992$327,132 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,124 -4%
- $342,256$327,132 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.
- Delta Junction$1,717
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Delta Junction, AK fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delta Junction, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska
Delta Junction is a city of 918 people in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area. Half its households earn more than $84,271 a year and half less, against $73,882 across Southeast Fairbanks Census Area; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area work in government, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delta Junction is a small city where people are younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes here run above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a place this remote. Winters are long and very cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings the warmest days of a mild summer.
Work. Residents work mostly in government, in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Across Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, the largest workplaces include the Delta/Greely School District, the Alaska Gateway School District and the Upper Tanana Health Center. Getting to work takes little time here, and unemployment across the census area has eased a little compared with a year ago, though there are somewhat fewer jobs than there were.
Things to do. Quartz Lake is the best known place nearby, a lake a longer drive away from town. Also a longer drive away is the Swan Point Archaeological Site, an archaeological site that appeals to anyone curious about the region's early human history.
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- 521households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area had 3,093 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 3° and lows near -13°; warmest in July, with highs near 72° and lows near 47°. About 45 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delta Northeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
- Delta/Greely School DistrictSchool district111FTE
- Alaska Gateway School DistrictSchool district89FTE
- Upper Tanana Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient46
- First Student35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 81 people in all across the county; Delta Junction has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delta Junction’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 Southeast Fairbanks Census Area.
Delta Junction home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delta Junction$327,132
- Alaska$397,932
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Delta Junction 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.
- Delta Junction23.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delta Junction44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delta Junction12
Zip codes with a Delta Junction address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delta Junction — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.