to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$937 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
Living in Dillingham, Dillingham Census Area, Alaska
Dillingham is a city of 2,249 people in Dillingham Census Area. Half its households earn more than $101,200 a year and half less, against $78,533 across Dillingham Census Area; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dillingham Census Area was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 26 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dillingham is a small city in southwest Alaska, in the Dillingham Census Area, with a population younger than the national median. Household incomes in town run well above the census area's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places of its size.
Work. Work in Dillingham centers on health care, education and fishing. Kanakanak Hospital, a critical access hospital, is among the largest workplaces, along with Silver Bay Seafoods, a seafood processor, and the Southwest Region School District. Across the census area, unemployment has risen a little over the past year and there are fewer jobs than there were the year before, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The waters around Dillingham are the main draw. The Nushagak River and the Igushik River are both a longer drive away, and Lake Aleknagik is another lake and river destination reached by a longer drive. Each is a place for getting out onto the water or along its banks.
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- 738households
- 11%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
Largest workplaces in Dillingham
- Kanakanak HospitalCritical access hospital510FTE
- Silver Bay SeafoodsSeafood processing152
- Southwest Region School DistrictSchool district146FTE
- NMSJanitorial24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 176 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dillingham’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Dillingham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Dillingham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dillingham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.