Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

The median income of households in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska was $61,406. An estimated 5.6% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 4.9% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 70.7% of households received earnings. An estimated 44.8% of households received Social Security and an estimated 34.6 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $19,240. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2020-2024, 14.2 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 10.2% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 9.3% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 18% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2020-2024, 16.7 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 20.8% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 59.7% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 24.7% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska in 2020-2024, 81% had health insurance coverage and 19% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 50.2% and public coverage was 46.1%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 17%.

In 2020-2024, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska had a total population of 2,311 - 992 (42.9%) females and 1,319 (57.1%) males. The median age was 50 years. An estimated 17% of the population was under 18 years, 26.2% was 19 to 44 years, 27.1% was 45 to 64 years, and 28.3 % was 65 years and older.

In 2020-2024, there were 924 households in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska. The average household size was 2.32 people.

Married-couple households made up 42.7% of the households in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska while cohabiting couple households made up 6.1% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 18.6% of all households, while 32.6% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 28.7% of households were male householders living alone, and 10.5% were female householders living alone, for a total of 39.2% of all households.

In Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, 17.9% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 48.8% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2020-2024, an estimated 93.2% of the people living in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska were U.S. natives. 50.9% of the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 6.8% of Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska residents in 2020-2024 were foreign-born. 54.8% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 75.8 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2020-2024 for Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska.

Among people at least five years old living in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska in 2020-2024, 17.1 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 5.3% of people at least five years old; 3% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2020-2024, 91.1 % of the people at least one year old living in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2020-2024, 94 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 24.6% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 6% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska was 389 in 2020-2024. Nursery school enrollment was 20 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 302. College or graduate school enrollment was 67.

In Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2020-2024, 20.8 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 11.9% of people under 18 years old, to 12.3% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 42.6% of those 65 and over.

In Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, 52.8 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 37.3% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 48.4% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 37.8% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 13.8 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2020-2024, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska worked in the following industries:

An estimated 34.6% of Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska workers drove to work alone in 2020-2024, and 4.2% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 12.6 minutes to get to work.

In 2020-2024, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska had a total of 1,753 housing units. Of these housing units, 87.4% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 8.4% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 4.3% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

6.3% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 8.3% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska was 4.7 rooms, and of these housing units 44.2% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2020-2024, Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska had 924 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 829 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 72% while renters occupied 28%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 2.47 and in renter-occupied houses it was 1.95.

4.4% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 20% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 28.6% and another 9.5% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska:

In 2020-2024, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska was $262,800.

Of the owner-occupied households, 18.8 % had a mortgage. 81.2% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $1,530 and for owners without a mortgage it was $384.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska was $1,014. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.