County · Alaska

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska has a quality-of-life score of 34 out of 100 (low), ranking #2,083 of 3,143 US counties. Within Alaska it ranks #21 of 30 counties. It ranks best on effective property tax rate (low), average weekly wage (high) and average commute time (low). It ranks worst on distance to an emergency room (high), distance to an Amtrak station (high) and suicide rate (high).

34Low
Quality-of-life score
#2,083 of 3,143 counties
Alaska
#21 of 30 in AK
Population
7,270 (2025)
Land area
24,839 mi²
Density
0.3 /mi²
FIPS code
02240

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 66 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

Location of Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US counties.

  • Safety8#2,849/3,096
  • Economy64#1,132/3,143
  • Housing58#1,315/3,140
  • Health39#1,905/3,144
  • Healthcare18#2,579/3,143
  • Environment—
  • Education51#1,554/3,144
  • Infrastructure34#2,068/3,144
  • Community20#2,520/3,144
  • Leisure & amenities75#776/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Counties like Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Public money & outcomes

Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Cities and towns in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area

Places whose residents live mostly in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, largest first.

  1. Deltana1,997
  2. Tok1,649
  3. Delta Junction1,217
  4. Big Delta565
  5. Northway192
  6. Dry Creek162
  7. Tanacross155
  8. Tetlin123
  9. Fort Greely111
  10. Eagle95
  11. Eagle Village24
  12. Healy Lake24
  13. Whitestone18
  14. Alcan Border3
  15. Chicken0
  16. Dot Lake0
  17. Dot Lake Village0

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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