All Counties in Alaska, Eviction Risk 2026
30 counties covering 353 incorporated cities and 719,609 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 3.7/10 (Low), but county-level scores vary sharply, urban counties with strong tenant protections or high rent burdens routinely score several points above rural counties.
| County↕ | Population↕ | Risk↕ | Lean↕ | Renters↕ | % income on rent↕ | Avg rent↕ | Poverty↕ | Cities↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bristol Bay Borough | 918 | 4.2 | — | 46.6% | 11.2% | $1,326 | 10.7% | 3 |
| 02 | Sitka City and Borough | 8,368 | 4.1 | — | 38.3% | 28.7% | $1,341 | 8.4% | 1 |
| 03 | Bethel Census Area | 18,207 | 4.0 | — | 33.1% | 19.4% | $1,038 | 26.9% | 35 |
| 04 | Juneau City and Borough | 31,794 | 4.0 | — | 36.4% | 24.2% | $1,444 | 8.2% | 1 |
| 05 | Chugach Census Area | 6,768 | 4.0 | — | 48.8% | 25.1% | $1,266 | 12.3% | 5 |
| 06 | North Slope Borough | 9,739 | 4.0 | — | 46.2% | 15.7% | $1,093 | 14.5% | 9 |
| 07 | Nome Census Area | 9,519 | 3.9 | — | 29.1% | 23.3% | $1,125 | 30.1% | 17 |
| 08 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 7,371 | 3.9 | — | 27.4% | 17.4% | $1,116 | 23.7% | 12 |
| 09 | Wrangell City and Borough | 2,088 | 3.9 | — | 40.9% | 24.5% | $993 | 10.9% | 1 |
| 10 | Kusilvak Census Area | 8,201 | 3.8 | — | 30.0% | 19.3% | $842 | 34.3% | 13 |
| 11 | Kodiak Island Borough | 12,514 | 3.8 | — | 36.4% | 30.8% | $2,026 | 13.4% | 12 |
| 12 | Skagway Municipality | 1,174 | 3.8 | — | 32.5% | 28.4% | $1,280 | 6.7% | 1 |
| 13 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 959 | 3.8 | — | 43.7% | 29.9% | $965 | 17.2% | 18 |
| 14 | Aleutians East Borough | 3,484 | 3.8 | — | 47.9% | 22.3% | $1,022 | 13.4% | 6 |
| 15 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 8,402 | 3.8 | — | 25.9% | 52.3% | $1,414 | 12.4% | 3 |
| 16 | Dillingham Census Area | 4,659 | 3.7 | — | 33.7% | 25.6% | $981 | 24.1% | 10 |
| 17 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 2,292 | 3.7 | — | 28.7% | 30.9% | $884 | 12.9% | 9 |
| 18 | Anchorage Municipality | 288,976 | 3.7 | — | 36.1% | 28.5% | $1,489 | 9.3% | 1 |
| 19 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 94,524 | 3.7 | — | 33.7% | 26.4% | $1,405 | 7.4% | 17 |
| 20 | Yakutat City and Borough | 527 | 3.7 | — | 43.7% | 14.3% | $1,330 | 7.8% | 1 |
| 21 | Aleutians West Census Area | 5,093 | 3.7 | — | 55.7% | 16.7% | $1,802 | 10.1% | 6 |
| 22 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 6,391 | 3.7 | — | 37.8% | 30.8% | $1,206 | 20.7% | 17 |
| 23 | Copper River Census Area | 2,601 | 3.6 | — | 44.0% | 20.7% | $1,060 | 19.8% | 20 |
| 24 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 5,267 | 3.6 | — | 29.1% | 22.9% | $983 | 20.0% | 16 |
| 25 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 107,813 | 3.6 | — | 20.5% | 31.5% | $1,341 | 11.5% | 30 |
| 26 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 60,031 | 3.5 | — | 24.0% | 29.3% | $1,133 | 13.2% | 37 |
| 27 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 4,859 | 3.5 | — | 33.5% | 22.6% | $973 | 26.1% | 38 |
| 28 | Denali Borough | 1,779 | 3.4 | — | 28.4% | 26.0% | $949 | 8.0% | 5 |
| 29 | Petersburg Borough | 3,238 | 3.3 | — | 31.6% | 26.5% | $1,082 | 5.8% | 3 |
| 30 | Haines Borough | 2,053 | 3.2 | — | 24.4% | 31.6% | $1,087 | 11.2% | 6 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Alaska
Alaska's 30 counties span eviction-risk scores from 3.2 in Haines Borough to 4.2 in Bristol Bay Borough , a 1.0-point gap that captures how unevenly rent burdens, renter populations, and local tenant politics are distributed across the state. The statewide average sits at 3.7/10 (Low), but that single figure hides far more than it reveals, the table above scores every county on the same 1–10 scale so you can see exactly where landlord exposure concentrates.
The counties carrying the most eviction risk, Bristol Bay Borough, Sitka City and Borough, Bethel Census Area, are Alaska's denser, higher-cost markets. In Ketchikan Gateway Borough, renters spend an average of 52% of household income on rent, and 26% of its homes are renter-occupied, the cost pressure that pushes filings up and pulls tenant-protection ordinances into local politics. Larger metros also concentrate the legal-aid networks and renter-organizing capacity that lift a county's score above the rural baseline.
At the other end of the table, Haines Borough, Petersburg Borough, Denali Borough score lowest. These tend to be smaller, more rural counties where homeownership is the norm, rent-to-income ratios run lower, and local rent-control or just-cause ordinances are rare or state-preempted. Evictions still happen there, but the structural pressure that drives a high score (heavy rent burden, a large renter majority, organized tenant advocacy) is simply weaker.
Each county score is a population-weighted aggregate of every city scored inside it, so a county with one expensive urban core and a dozen quiet suburbs lands somewhere in between. Click any county row to drill into its cities ranked one by one, a zoomed heat map, and a full breakdown of rent burden, renter share, poverty rate, and political margin. For the statutes that apply statewide regardless of county, notice periods, security-deposit caps, just-cause and rent-control rules, see the Alaska state overview.