Sutton, Alaska.
Typical home $266,204 (-1.6% in a year). Anchorage, AK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$611 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,337 -2%
- $270,542$266,204 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,300 +10%
- $241,904$266,204 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.
- Sutton$1,397
- Alaska$2,089
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Sutton, AK fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sutton, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
The Census does not count Sutton on its own, so the figures here are Matanuska-Susitna Borough's. Half the county's households earn more than $94,031 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Matanuska-Susitna Borough was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Matanuska-Susitna Borough work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sutton sits in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in south-central Alaska, a region of mountains, rivers and forest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm and mild, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall through the year in moderate amounts.
Work. Across Matanuska-Susitna Borough, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in retail shops, or in government. Unemployment is lower than it was a year before, and the number of jobs has grown slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The Matanuska River, a river a longer drive away, is the better known of the nearby places. King Mountain State Recreation Site, a protected area also a longer drive away, offers a quieter setting for time outdoors.
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- 39,869households
- 36.7median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Matanuska-Susitna Borough work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Matanuska-Susitna Borough had 29,978 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 68° and lows near 47°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sutton West weather station, 36 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough School DistrictSchool district1,796FTE
- Mat-su Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital698FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters466
- State of Alaska345
- Matanuska Telecom AssociationTelecommunications carriers, wired301
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation260
- Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 70 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,200 people in all. 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 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 Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Anchorage, AK metro.
Sutton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sutton$266,204
- 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.
- Sutton7
Zip codes with a Sutton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sutton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.