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Healy, Alaska.

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What it costs per month · Healy $2,089/mo

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Alaska $2,089 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Alaska$2,089
  • United States$1,922

Living in Healy, Denali Borough, Alaska

Healy, in Denali Borough, had 966 people in the 2020 census. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Denali Borough was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.

People 966 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Healy for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 1.8% Denali Borough, August 2026; 1.6% a year before
Homes 79% lived in by their owners; 21% rented

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Healy is a small community in interior Alaska, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good number of households live on modest means. Winters are very cold, among the coldest in the country, while summers stay mild, and the year brings little rain or melted snow.

Work. Work here is closely tied to visitors to the national park nearby. Across Denali Borough, the largest workplaces include Aramark DENALI - NATIONAL PARK TOURS, the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge and the National Park Service. Unemployment across the borough is low and has barely moved from a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown a little. A typical commute is short, and few people work from home.

Things to do. The Dry Creek Archeological Site is the one nearby place worth naming, an archaeological site a short drive away. It makes an easy outing for anyone curious about the long human history of this part of Alaska.

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  • 268households
  • 12%below the poverty line
  • 20 mintypical commute
  • 5%work from home

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 8° and -9°; warmest in July, 67° and 49° 0° 20° 40° 60° J 8° -9° F M A M J J 67° 49° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 8° and -9°; warmest in July, 67° and 49° 0° 20° 40° 60° J 8° -9° F M A M J J 67° 49° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 8° and lows near -9°; warmest in July, with highs near 67° and lows near 49°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Healy weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Denali Borough

  1. Aramark DENALI - NATIONAL PARK TOURSFood service contractors222
  2. Denali Princess Wilderness LodgeHotels and motels184
  3. National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior172
  4. Holland America Denali LodgeHotels and motels148
  5. AramarkFood service contractors109
  6. Golden Valley Electric AssociationElectric power generation, fossil fuel69
  7. Denali Borough School DistrictSchool district58FTE
  8. Holland America Princess Tours AlaskaScenic and sightseeing transportation, land40

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 792 people in all across the county; Healy has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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

  1. Cold wavesVery high
  2. Winter weatherVery high
  3. WildfireRelatively high
  4. AvalanchesRelatively high
  5. EarthquakesRelatively high
  6. LandslidesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Healy’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.

Healy 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 Healy address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Healy — 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.