Salcha, Alaska.
Typical home $204,236 (+0.7% in a year). Fairbanks, AK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$335 (+45%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,336 +1%
- $202,900$204,236 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,568 -6%
- $217,803$204,236 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.
- Salcha$1,072
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Salcha, AK rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salcha, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Salcha, in Fairbanks North Star Borough, had 977 people in the 2020 census. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Fairbanks North Star Borough was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fairbanks North Star Borough work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salcha is a small community in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, and nearly every home in town is lived in by the people who own it. Winters are very cold, with January the coldest month, and snow stays on the ground for a long part of the year. Summers are mild and fairly short, with July the warmest month, and the year brings little rain or melted snow overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Across the borough, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and Fairbanks Memorial. Commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Salcha River and Harding Lake are both a short drive away, one a river and the other a lake, and both are close enough for an easy outing. Birch Lake and Birch Lake State Recreation Site, a lake and a protected area, are a longer drive away and suit a fuller day.
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- 26%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Fairbanks North Star Borough work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fairbanks North Star Borough had 37,074 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 0° and lows near -18°; warmest in July, with highs near 72° and lows near 50°. About 68 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eielson Field weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fairbanks North Star Borough
- University of Alaska FairbanksUniversity or college2,605
- Fairbanks North Star Borough School DistrictSchool district1,602FTE
- Fairbanks MemorialGeneral hospital1,374FTE
- Tanana Chiefs Conference- All OtherIndividual and family social services, multi-purpose663
- Fairbanks North Star BoroughExecutive and legislative office combinations503
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters443
- Tanana Chiefs ConferenceCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient422
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior365
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,686 people in all across the county; Salcha has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salcha’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. More on Fairbanks North Star Borough and the Fairbanks, AK metro.
Salcha home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salcha$204,236
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Salcha8
Zip codes with a Salcha address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salcha — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.