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Nome, Alaska.

A city in Nome Census Area. Zillow publishes no home prices for it.

Living in Nome, Nome Census Area, Alaska

Nome is a city of 3,699 people in Nome Census Area. Half its households earn more than $113,646 a year and half less, against $78,681 across Nome Census Area; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Nome Census Area was 8.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.

People 3,699 in the 2020 census; median age 31.4
Household income $113,646 the median, give or take $13,810 · Nome Census Area: $78,681
Unemployment 8.5% Nome Census Area, August 2026; 10.3% a year before
Homes 54% lived in by their owners; 46% rented
  • 1,166households
  • 22%of adults have a degree
  • 9%below the poverty line
  • 6 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care35%
  • Government17%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities12%
  • Other services9%
  • Farming, forestry and mining6%
  • Shops (retail)5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nome Census Area had 3,874 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 13° and -2°; warmest in July, 58° and 46° 0° 20° 40° 60° J 13° -2° F M A M J J 58° 46° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 13° and -2°; warmest in July, 58° and 46° 0° 20° 40° 60° J 13° -2° F M A M J J 58° 46° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 13° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 58° and lows near 46°. About 81 inches of snow and 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nome Municipal Airport weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Nome Census Area

  1. Norton Sound Regional HospitalCritical access hospital768FTE
  2. Bering Strait School DistrictSchool district508FTE
  3. Nome Public SchoolsSchool district81FTE
  4. State of Alaska40
  5. SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores35
  6. Norton Sound Economic DevelopmentSeafood and seafood products manufacturing29
  7. Norton Sound Economic DevelopmentSeafood and seafood products manufacturing28
  8. Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation- Norton Sound Seafood ProductsSeafood and seafood products manufacturing21

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 173 people in all across the county; Nome has two 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

  1. Winter weatherVery high
  2. Cold wavesVery high
  3. EarthquakesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nome’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.