All Counties in Alaska, Eviction Risk 2026
30 counties covering 353 incorporated cities and 719,609 residents. Statewide average landlord risk score is 3.1/10 (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 | Anchorage Municipality | 288,976 | 3.6 | — | 36.1% | 28.5% | $1,489 | 9.3% | 1 |
| 02 | Skagway Municipality | 1,174 | 3.4 | — | 32.5% | 28.4% | $1,280 | 6.7% | 1 |
| 03 | Nome Census Area | 9,519 | 3.4 | — | 29.1% | 23.3% | $1,125 | 30.1% | 17 |
| 04 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 7,371 | 3.4 | — | 27.4% | 17.4% | $1,116 | 23.7% | 12 |
| 05 | Kusilvak Census Area | 8,201 | 3.4 | — | 30.0% | 19.3% | $842 | 34.3% | 13 |
| 06 | Bethel Census Area | 18,207 | 3.3 | — | 33.1% | 19.4% | $1,038 | 26.9% | 35 |
| 07 | Sitka City and Borough | 8,368 | 3.3 | — | 38.3% | 28.7% | $1,341 | 8.4% | 1 |
| 08 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 8,402 | 3.2 | — | 25.9% | 52.3% | $1,414 | 12.4% | 3 |
| 09 | Dillingham Census Area | 4,659 | 3.2 | — | 33.7% | 25.6% | $981 | 24.1% | 10 |
| 10 | North Slope Borough | 9,739 | 3.2 | — | 46.2% | 15.7% | $1,093 | 14.5% | 9 |
| 11 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 2,292 | 3.2 | — | 28.7% | 30.9% | $884 | 12.9% | 9 |
| 12 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 959 | 3.1 | — | 43.7% | 29.9% | $965 | 17.2% | 18 |
| 13 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 5,267 | 3.1 | — | 29.1% | 22.9% | $983 | 20.0% | 16 |
| 14 | Kodiak Island Borough | 12,514 | 3.1 | — | 36.4% | 30.8% | $2,026 | 13.4% | 12 |
| 15 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 107,813 | 3.1 | — | 20.5% | 31.5% | $1,341 | 11.5% | 30 |
| 16 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 60,031 | 3.1 | — | 24.0% | 29.3% | $1,133 | 13.2% | 37 |
| 17 | Chugach Census Area | 6,768 | 3.0 | — | 48.8% | 25.1% | $1,266 | 12.3% | 5 |
| 18 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 6,391 | 3.0 | — | 37.8% | 30.8% | $1,206 | 20.7% | 17 |
| 19 | Juneau City and Borough | 31,794 | 3.0 | — | 36.4% | 24.2% | $1,444 | 8.2% | 1 |
| 20 | Wrangell City and Borough | 2,088 | 3.0 | — | 40.9% | 24.5% | $993 | 10.9% | 1 |
| 21 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 4,859 | 3.0 | — | 33.5% | 22.6% | $973 | 26.1% | 38 |
| 22 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 94,524 | 3.0 | — | 33.7% | 26.4% | $1,405 | 7.4% | 17 |
| 23 | Bristol Bay Borough | 918 | 2.9 | — | 46.6% | 11.2% | $1,326 | 10.7% | 3 |
| 24 | Copper River Census Area | 2,601 | 2.9 | — | 44.0% | 20.7% | $1,060 | 19.8% | 20 |
| 25 | Denali Borough | 1,779 | 2.9 | — | 28.4% | 26.0% | $949 | 8.0% | 5 |
| 26 | Petersburg Borough | 3,238 | 2.9 | — | 31.6% | 26.5% | $1,082 | 5.8% | 3 |
| 27 | Aleutians West Census Area | 5,093 | 2.9 | — | 55.7% | 16.7% | $1,802 | 10.1% | 6 |
| 28 | Aleutians East Borough | 3,484 | 2.8 | — | 47.9% | 22.3% | $1,022 | 13.4% | 6 |
| 29 | Haines Borough | 2,053 | 2.8 | — | 24.4% | 31.6% | $1,087 | 11.2% | 6 |
| 30 | Yakutat City and Borough | 527 | 2.6 | — | 43.7% | 14.3% | $1,330 | 7.8% | 1 |
Understanding county eviction risk in Alaska
Alaska's 30 counties span eviction-risk scores from 2.6 in Yakutat City and Borough to 3.6 in Anchorage Municipality , 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 3.1/10 (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, Anchorage Municipality, Skagway Municipality, Nome 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, Yakutat City and Borough, Haines Borough, Aleutians East 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.