Moose Pass, Alaska.
Typical home $282,066 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$664 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,691 +4%
- $272,375$282,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,775 +5%
- $268,291$282,066 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.
- Moose Pass$1,480
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 69 years.
Typical home values in Moose Pass, AK rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moose Pass, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Moose Pass, in Kenai Peninsula Borough, had 228 people in the 2020 census. 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 people in Kenai Peninsula Borough 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moose Pass is a very small community on the Kenai Peninsula, home to far fewer people than a typical town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while summers are mild and July is the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Homes here are valued below what many Americans would expect to pay, and household incomes across the Kenai Peninsula Borough sit at a modest level.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, government, and shops. 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 in the borough is a little lower than a year ago, and there are slightly more jobs than there were the year before.
Things to do. Kenai Lake is a short drive away, and so is Crescent Lake, both good places to spend time by the water. Chugach National Forest, a large protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Alaska SeaLife Center, which is a zoo and aquarium.
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What people in Kenai Peninsula Borough 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 24° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 66° and lows near 47°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Moose Pass 3NW 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; Moose Pass has one 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Moose Pass’ 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.
Moose Pass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moose Pass$282,066
- Alaska$397,932
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Moose Pass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moose Pass — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.