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Kachemak city, Alaska: commercial real estate data.
Kachemak city is a Census city of 805 people across 1.67 square miles of land, in Kenai Peninsula Borough. Median household income is $76,750, 75.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Kachemak
What Kachemak is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.67 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land481
- County holding the largest share of its areaKenai Peninsula Borough, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kachemak
How many people live in Kachemak
- Population805
- Median age39.6 plus or minus 10.4
- Population under 18183 plus or minus 57
- Share under 1822.7 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Population 65 and over227
- Share 65 and over28.2 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Households337
- Family households220
- Share of households that are families65.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kachemak
Income and work in Kachemak
- Median household income$76,750 plus or minus $22,606
- Per capita income$46,875
- Civilian labor force338 plus or minus 76
- Employed320 plus or minus 74
- Unemployed18 plus or minus 13
- Unemployment rate5.3 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Adults 25 and over587
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher94.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher39.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree17.7 percent plus or minus 5.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kachemak
Housing in Kachemak
- Housing units401
- Occupied units337
- Vacant units64 plus or minus 16
- Vacancy rate16.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Owner occupied255
- Renter occupied82 plus or minus 30
- Ownership rate75.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$450,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,185
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.5 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Single family units358
- Share single family89.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more36 plus or minus 25
- Share in buildings of two or more9.0 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes7 plus or minus 7
- Median year structure built1995
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kachemak
How Kachemak gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute202 plus or minus 55
- Commuting under 15 minutes154 plus or minus 47
- Share commuting under 15 minutes76.2 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more24 plus or minus 18
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more11.9 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Drove alone50.7 percent
- Carpooled10.5 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked6.3 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Worked from home29.4 percent plus or minus 11.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Kenai Peninsula Borough, not Kachemak
Kenai Peninsula Borough context, not Kachemak figures
These are Kenai Peninsula Borough figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Kachemak measurements.
- Establishments in Kenai Peninsula Borough2,405
- Employment at those establishments, Kenai Peninsula Borough15,786
- Covered employment, Kenai Peninsula Borough21,474
- Average annual pay, Kenai Peninsula Borough$62,398
- Average weekly wage, Kenai Peninsula Borough$1,200
- Housing units permitted, Kenai Peninsula Borough152
- Of those, single family, Kenai Peninsula Borough104
- County product, 2024, Kenai Peninsula Borough$3,590,303,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kenai Peninsula Borough3.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kenai Peninsula Borough$79,213
Every figure in this section is published for Kenai Peninsula Borough as a whole and is not a measurement of Kachemak. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Kachemak questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Kachemak, Alaska?
805, in 337 households. Kachemak city covers 1.67 square miles of land, which is 481 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Kachemak in?
Kenai Peninsula Borough, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Kachemak?
$76,750. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $450,000. Median gross rent is $1,185 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Kachemak figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kenai Peninsula Borough as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Kachemak.
Is zoning published for Kachemak?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.