Saxman, Alaska.
Typical home $301,470 (+10.0% in a year). Ketchikan, AK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$757 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,331 +10%
- $274,139$301,470 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,181 +19%
- $252,289$301,470 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.
- Saxman$1,582
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Saxman, AK rose 10.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saxman, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
Saxman is a city of 384 people in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Unemployment in Ketchikan Gateway Borough was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ketchikan Gateway Borough work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saxman is a very small city in southeast Alaska, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical. Homes are valued well below what a household income in the wider borough would suggest. Winters are cool and damp rather than harshly cold, with January highs just above freezing, and summers stay mild. Rain and melted snow fall in very large amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, then transport, warehouses and utilities, and shops. Across Ketchikan Gateway Borough, some of the largest workplaces are the State of Alaska, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District and Ketchikan Medical Center. Unemployment across the borough is lower than a year earlier, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly. Few residents work from home.
Things to do. The Totem Heritage Center is a museum in or beside town, and it is a natural first stop. Totem Bight State Historical Park is a short drive away. Ward Lake is also a short drive away, a quiet lake for an outing close to home.
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- 124households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Ketchikan Gateway Borough work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ketchikan Gateway Borough had 7,211 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 39° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 67° and lows near 54°. About 157 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaver Falls weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- State of Alaska505
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough School DistrictSchool district389FTE
- Ketchikan Medical CenterCritical access hospital358FTE
- City of KetchikanExecutive and legislative office combinations168
- WalmartDiscount department stores138
- Silver Bay SeafoodsFreezing fish130
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores120
- Alaska General Seafoods - KetchikanSeafood and seafood products manufacturing72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,999 people in all across the county; Saxman has two 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saxman’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Ketchikan Gateway Borough and the Ketchikan, AK metro.
Saxman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saxman$301,470
- 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 Saxman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saxman — 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.