Rental market · ZIP 99766 · Point Hope, AK

ZIP 99766, Point Hope, AK rental market

Population 832 · Point Hope, North Slope, AK · ZIP Code Tabulation Area

Ranked · ACS 2024 5-year

FGRADE
21.1/100 · Rental Investor ZIP Score
National rank #19,145 of 20,132 scored ZIP Codes
AK rank #67 of 73 · data confidence: moderate

Grade cut points, score out of 100: A from 63.7 · B from 54.7 · C from 42.4 · D from 28.1. This ZIP's 21.1 sits below 28.1, the lowest cut point the model publishes, and its grade is F. The cut points are the model's own, read from the published ZIP dataset, and are identical for every ZIP Code area.

The four category scores that combine into the number above, on the model's own 0 to 100 score scale. These bars are not percentiles: for where those scores place this ZIP Code against every other scored one, see how this ZIP ranks below.

Cash Flow & Affordability ZIP data
70
Local Demand & Market Quality ZIP data
42
Surrounding-Market Growth county / place context
3
Stability & Risk ZIP + place context
41

Why it ranks here: rent sits high relative to price and taxes (solid cash-flow/affordability).

Watch: the surrounding market is flat or declining. survey margins of error are wider here (data confidence: moderate).

Scored on incomplete measured inputs: this ZIP is missing measured 3-yr home-value growth (Zillow), measured market-heat index (Zillow), a measured home value (Zillow) to substitute into affordability/tax-burden, so it was scored on a narrower input basis than a ZIP with full measured coverage.

A transparent screening score, not a return forecast. Affordable, higher-yield markets can score well when demand, liquidity, low vacancy, reliable government data and a growing surrounding market support them. Categories labeled “context” use official county/place data, never presented as ZIP-level observation. ZIP and city scores are not directly comparable. See how this score works.

How this ZIP ranks: nationally & in-state

Each bar places this ZIP against all 20,132 scored ZIP Codes nationally. The marker is this ZIP and further right is more favorable to an investor; the tick is the median. Every position here is a percentile: the 0–100 scores and the grade they earn are stated once, in the card above, and this card states once where those same five numbers place this ZIP Code.

Overall Rental Investor ZIP Score
5th percentile
Cash Flow & Affordability
88th percentile
Local Demand & Market Quality
36th percentile
Surrounding-Market Growth county / place context
2nd percentile
Stability & Risk ZIP + place context
36th percentile
← 0th percentile50th (median)100th percentile →

Percentiles are the frozen model's own numbers among scored ZIP Codes (deterministic competition ranking); an unreliable or thin-peer in-state comparison reads “Not available,” never zero. All underlying figures are ACS survey estimates with margins of error. The comparability caveat and the method link for this score are stated once, in the card above.

What went into this score: 12 national factor percentiles

Cash Flow & Affordabilityweight 25% · category score 70

Gross rental yieldZIP observation
86th
Price to incomeZIP observation
93rd
Property-tax burdenZIP observation
3rd
Rent as a share of incomeZIP observation
98th

Local Demand & Market Qualityweight 30% · category score 42

Population scaleZIP observation · scale, not quality
3rd
Renter-household depthZIP observation · scale, not quality
19th
Renter share of householdsZIP observation
87th
Rental vacancyZIP observation
61st

Surrounding-Market Growthweight 25% · category score 3

County population growthcounty context
3rd

Stability & Riskweight 20% · category score 41

Median year builtZIP observation
62nd
ACS data confidenceZIP observation
22nd
Recently built shareZIP observation
40th

Every figure here is the frozen model’s own national percentile for one factor, read from the published ZIP dataset: 12 of the 15 factors this model defines were available for this ZIP Code. 3 of them could not be measured here (market heat (zillow measured), surrounding-market growth, surrounding-market stability) and were left out of the average rather than filled in with a national guess. Higher is the direction the model treats as more favourable to a rental investor; population scale and renter-household depth are size, not quality. Each category score is the plain average of its own percentiles above; the overall score combines those four at the weights shown. The percentiles are published rounded to whole numbers, so averaging the printed figures lands a fraction of a point from the published score. This ZIP’s weakest category is 3, below the model’s published floor of 30, so the model applies its floor penalty and the overall score is lower than those four weighted together would be on their own. Nothing on this panel is recomputed here, and a factor percentile is not a score.

Key metrics

832
Population

±190 ±23% moderate

$167,000
Median home value (ACS, owner-reported)

±$28,000 ±16.9% moderate

$1,088
Median gross rent (ACS, incl. utilities)

±$190 ±17.4% moderate

7.8%
Survey gross-rent yield (proxy)

Derived from ACS estimates: no published margin of error

$74,844
Median household income

±$16,000 ±21% moderate

2.3%
Rental vacancy

Derived from ACS estimates: no published margin of error

45.4%
Renter share

Derived from ACS estimates: no published margin of error

2.0%
Estimated property-tax burden

Derived from ACS estimates: no published margin of error

1982
Median year built

±2 years margin in years; a share of a year number would not mean anything

0.0%
Multifamily (5+ units)

Derived from ACS estimates: no published margin of error

Data vintage: ACS 2024 5-year · data confidence: moderate. Of the 10 figures above, 5 carry the Census Bureau's published 90% margin of error, printed on the card in the figure's own units and as a share of the estimate; and 5 are ratios derived from those estimates, which the Census Bureau publishes no margin for. The bar and the band word restate that printed share in three bands: tight under ±10%, moderate ±10% to ±25%, wide ±25% and over. A median year built is given a margin in years only, because a margin stated as a share of a year number would not mean anything; the bar is full at ±40%. A wider margin does not make an area worse, only less precisely measured.

Market context

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View source data

Each point is one ACS 5-year estimate on the same 2020-Census ZCTA boundary. Adjacent releases overlap, so the release-to-release differences are not independent annual market movement.

ACS estimates by release; ± is the margin of error.
Series2017–20212018–20222019–20232020–2024
Median home value B25077$121,900 ±$51,444$171,900 ±$24,307$184,700 ±$56,533$167,000 ±$28,205
Median gross rent B25064$1,089 ±$337$1,250 ±$475$1,288 ±$320$1,088 ±$189
Population B01003925 ±210649 ±125721 ±143832 ±189

ACS 2021 release

2017-2021 five-year estimate

Median home value B25077
$121,900Margin of error ±$51,444
Median gross rent B25064
$1,089Margin of error ±$337
Population B01003
925Margin of error ±210

ACS 2022 release

2018-2022 five-year estimate

Median home value B25077
$171,900Margin of error ±$24,307
Median gross rent B25064
$1,250Margin of error ±$475
Population B01003
649Margin of error ±125

ACS 2023 release

2019-2023 five-year estimate

Median home value B25077
$184,700Margin of error ±$56,533
Median gross rent B25064
$1,288Margin of error ±$320
Population B01003
721Margin of error ±143

ACS 2024 release

2020-2024 five-year estimate

Median home value B25077
$167,000Margin of error ±$28,205
Median gross rent B25064
$1,088Margin of error ±$189
Population B01003
832Margin of error ±189

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year, table-based Summary File (ZCTA geography); tables B25077 (median value), B25064 (median gross rent), and B01003 (population); estimate + margin of error. Missing releases remain gaps and are never interpolated. Home value is owner-reported; gross rent describes renter housing stock; population is a ZCTA estimate. Dollar figures are nominal.

Underwrite with these as starting points

Opening a calculator pre-loads the ACS median owner value and median gross rent as a survey-level starting point; every calculator input is editable. Owner-occupied median value and renter median gross rent describe different housing stock: the median-valued home is not the typical rental, so this is a screen, not a listing, appraisal, asking rent, cap rate, or forecast. Bring your own entry price and rent.

Evidence, sources & limitations

Official geography: Point Hope city, North Slope Borough. Analytical entity: the U.S. Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) 99766, an approximation of the USPS ZIP delivery area, not its exact route boundaries. Model z3-measured-v1; data ACS 2024 5-year.

This ZIP Code area is primarily in North Slope, overlapping Point Hope, by land-area overlap from the official Census 2020 ZCTA relationship files (not population or address share).

Populationsurvey ACS B01003 · ±23% margin of error
Median home value (ACS, owner-reported)survey ACS B25077 · ±16.9% margin of error
Median gross rent (ACS, incl. utilities)survey ACS B25064 · ±17.4% margin of error
Survey gross-rent yield (proxy)derived 12 * ACS B25064 / B25077 · no published margin of error
Median household incomesurvey ACS B19013 · ±21% margin of error
Rental vacancyderived ACS B25004 E002 / (B25003 E003 + B25004 E002) · no published margin of error
Renter sharederived ACS B25003 E003/E001 · no published margin of error
Estimated property-tax burdenderived ACS B25103 / B25077 · no published margin of error
Median year builtsurvey ACS B25035 · ±<1% margin of error
Multifamily (5+ units)derived ACS B25024 (5+ unit structures / total) · no published margin of error

Class: survey = ACS estimate (with margin of error); derived = computed from ACS. The survey gross-rent yield is a proxy (renter gross rent vs owner-occupied value, different housing stock; ACS top-codes very high values/rents) and is not a cap rate. Subscores are national percentiles among data-eligible areas; ranks are competition-ranked with deterministic ties. No vendor, listing, parcel, or school data. Not investment advice.