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Houston, Alaska.

A city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Zillow publishes no home prices for it.

Living in Houston, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

Houston is a city of 1,975 people in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Matanuska-Susitna Borough was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 1,975 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Houston for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.5% Matanuska-Susitna Borough, August 2026; 3.9% a year before
Homes 71% lived in by their owners; 29% rented
  • 735households
  • 12%of adults have a degree
  • 19%below the poverty line
  • 47 mintypical commute
  • 12%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care20%
  • Shops (retail)15%
  • Building trades14%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities10%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Manufacturing7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Matanuska-Susitna Borough had 29,978 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 16° and -2°; warmest in July, 71° and 49° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 16° -2° F M A M J J 71° 49° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 16° and -2°; warmest in July, 71° and 49° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 16° -2° F M A M J J 71° 49° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 71° and lows near 49°.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Whites Crossing weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Matanuska-Susitna Borough

  1. Matanuska-Susitna Borough School DistrictSchool district1,796FTE
  2. Mat-su Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital698FTE
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters466
  4. State of Alaska345
  5. Matanuska Telecom AssociationTelecommunications carriers, wired301
  6. Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
  7. Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation260
  8. Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters229

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 70 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,200 people in all across the county; Houston has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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. EarthquakesVery high
  2. WildfireRelatively high
  3. Winter weatherRelatively high

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