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Skagway CDP, Alaska: commercial real estate data.
Skagway CDP is a Census CDP of 1,174 people across 9.47 square miles of land, in Skagway Municipality. Median household income is $89,028, 67.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 8 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $3.8 m.
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Skagway
What Skagway is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area9.47 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land124
- County holding the largest share of its areaSkagway Municipality, 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.
Skagway
How many people live in Skagway
- Population1,174
- Median age40.5
- Population under 18193
- Share under 1816.4 percent
- Population 65 and over180
- Share 65 and over15.3 percent
- Households403
- Family households205 plus or minus 41
- Share of households that are families50.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Skagway
Income and work in Skagway
- Median household income$89,028 plus or minus $17,854
- Per capita income$61,471
- Civilian labor force767
- Employed696
- Unemployed71 plus or minus 54
- Unemployment rate9.3 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Adults 25 and over910
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.5 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher29.3 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.8 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Skagway
Housing in Skagway
- Housing units592
- Occupied units403
- Vacant units189
- Vacancy rate31.9 percent
- Owner occupied272
- Renter occupied131 plus or minus 33
- Ownership rate67.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$426,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,280
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.3 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Single family units372
- Share single family62.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more169 plus or minus 42
- Share in buildings of two or more28.5 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Mobile homes51 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1982
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Skagway
How Skagway gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute657
- Commuting under 15 minutes621 plus or minus 153
- Share commuting under 15 minutes94.5 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4 plus or minus 11
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more0.6 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Drove alone39.6 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Carpooled2.5 percent plus or minus 1.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked43.0 percent plus or minus 21.6
- Worked from home4.6 percent plus or minus 1.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Skagway
SBA 7(a) lending to Skagway borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$3,765,000
- Average approval$470,625
- Median approval$455,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,250,000
- Largest approval$1,250,000
- Jobs supported169
- Jobs per approval21.1
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more12.5 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS6
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Skagway Municipality, not Skagway
Skagway Municipality context, not Skagway figures
These are Skagway Municipality figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Skagway measurements.
- Establishments in Skagway Municipality112
- Employment at those establishments, Skagway Municipality441
- Covered employment, Skagway Municipality915
- Average annual pay, Skagway Municipality$58,010
- Average weekly wage, Skagway Municipality$1,116
- Housing units permitted, Skagway Municipality9
- Of those, single family, Skagway Municipality4
- County product, 2024, Skagway Municipality$128,332,000
- County product change over the prior year, Skagway Municipality9.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Skagway Municipality$56,280
Every figure in this section is published for Skagway Municipality as a whole and is not a measurement of Skagway. 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.
- 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
Skagway questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Skagway, Alaska?
1,174, in 403 households. Skagway CDP covers 9.47 square miles of land, which is 124 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Skagway in?
Skagway Municipality, 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 Skagway?
$89,028. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $426,500. Median gross rent is $1,280 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Skagway businesses?
8 7(a) approvals totalling $3.8 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $455,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Skagway, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Skagway borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Skagway. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Skagway figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Skagway Municipality 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 Skagway.
Is zoning published for Skagway?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.