menu

Galena - Huslia, AK

This is a small community in a single neighborhood. As throughout the site, some neighborhood-level data are reserved for subscribers.





Overview


Galena - Huslia is a very small town located in the state of Alaska. With a population of 1,737 people and just one neighborhood, Galena - Huslia is the 40th largest community in Alaska.

Occupations and Workforce

Galena - Huslia is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Galena - Huslia is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Galena - Huslia who work in teaching (17.60%), office and administrative support (12.02%), and management occupations (10.04%).

A relatively large number of people in Galena - Huslia telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.63% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Galena - Huslia has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Galena - Huslia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Galena - Huslia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Galena - Huslia may be for you.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Galena - Huslia spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 10.28 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

As is often the case in a small town, Galena - Huslia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Galena - Huslia rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.81% of adults 25 and older in Galena - Huslia have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Galena - Huslia in 2018 was $26,176, which is low income relative to Alaska, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,704 for a family of four. However, Galena - Huslia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Galena - Huslia is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Galena - Huslia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galena - Huslia residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Galena - Huslia include German, Irish, Norwegian, European, and Finnish.

The most common language spoken in Galena - Huslia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 84.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 42.0%, which is higher than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 80.4% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (35.0%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Also, our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.3%) than in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 37.5% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 77.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Galena - Huslia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.4%), and 20.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.3% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (13.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Galena - Huslia, AK, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (77.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (2.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (84.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (35.0%) hop out the door and walk to work to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (31.7%) and 25.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. This is a special neighborhood for the number of people who walk to work. Combining exercise, low cost, and reduced pollution, plus the chance to see your neighbors, walking to work is fairly uncommon in America but likely to increase as people try to reduce their dependence on automobiles, and this neighborhood offers that opportunity today.


Real Estate includes:
Average Home Values
Rental Market
Housing Market Details
Neighborhood Setting
Economics & Demographics include:
Lifestyle & Special Character
Household Types
Commute To Work
Migration & Mobility
Race & Ethnic Diversity
Employment Industries & Occupations
Income & Unemployment Rate
Higher Education Attainment
Crime includes:
Neighborhood Crime Index
Crimes Per Square Mile
Property Crime Comparison
Violent Crime Comparison
Schools include:
School Ratings
Schools In District
Public School Test Scores
School District Enrollment
Educational Expenditures

Popular real estate nearby

comparable neighborhoods nearby