Sitka, Alaska.
Typical home $489,049 (-5.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$820 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $28,771 -6%
- $517,820$489,049 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $52,899 -10%
- $541,948$489,049 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.
- Sitka$2,567
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sitka, AK fell 5.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sitka, Sitka City and Borough, Alaska
Sitka is a city of 8,458 people in Sitka City and Borough. Half its households earn more than $101,727 a year and half less, against $101,727 across Sitka City and Borough; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Sitka was 2.1% in August 2026, and Sitka City and Borough had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sitka is a small coastal city where winters stay cool and damp rather than harshly cold, and summers are mild, with very heavy rain and melted snow through the year. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are comfortable, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is moderate.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more residents than any other field, followed by government, manufacturing and shops. Seafood is central to local industry, and among the largest workplaces are Allen Marine, a shipyard, Silver Bay Seafoods, a seafood processor, and the Sitka School District. Jobs are plentiful for those who want them, and most people have a short trip to work.
Things to do. Close to town, Old Sitka is an archaeological site, and the Russian Bishop's House and the Sitka Historical Museum are both museums, all a short drive away. Swan Lake is also a short drive off. Sitka National Historical Park, an archaeological site, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,440households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sitka City and Borough had 4,464 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 29°; warmest in August, with highs near 62° and lows near 50°. About 102 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sitka Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sitka
- Allen MarineShipyard320
- Silver Bay Seafoods -SESeafood processing204
- Sitka School DistrictSchool district190FTE
- Sitka Sound SeafoodsSeafood and seafood products manufacturing73
- Seafood Producers CooperativeCannery, seafood70
- State of Alaska66
- State of Alaska59
- Sitka Alaska CSAir passenger carriers, scheduled52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 930 people in all. School districts come 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
- LandslidesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sitka’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. More on Sitka City and Borough.
Sitka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sitka$489,049
- Alaska$397,932
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sitka listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Sitka20.36%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sitka26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sitka6
Zip codes with a Sitka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sitka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.