Funeral services · Metro area · Alaska
Funeral homes in the Anchorage, AK metro area
How the Anchorage, AK metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 58 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #131 of 377 scored metro areas
The only scored metro area based in Alaska
- Listings
- 16
- 3 chain locations (19%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $16.1M
- On funerals · $109 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1M
- 48% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.1
- 48% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 405,821
- +1.9% since 2020
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What this means
At $109 per household (24% below the U.S. average), households in the Anchorage metro area spend about $16.1M a year on funerals. Spread across 16 funeral homes, that is $1M per home, 48% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
There are 16 funeral homes on map listings in the Anchorage metro area as of September 2026. Of those, 3 are chain locations, or 19%, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 1.1 for every 10,000 households, 48% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Anchorage metro area was 11 in 2023. That is one for every 13,497 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $150K has gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Anchorage metro area.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Anchorage metro area grew 1.9%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For funeral homes, the Anchorage metro area has a Groundwork market score of 58 (upper middle): #131 of 377 scored metro areas and the only scored metro area based in Alaska.
How the Anchorage metro area compares
The same measures for Alaska and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Anchorage metro area | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.1 | 1.0 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1M | $1.1M | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 13,497 | 15,030 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.9% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $109 | $112 | $143 |
| Median household income | $100,505 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 58 | 57 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11
- Employees, 2023
- 68
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 163 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 24The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $150K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Anchorage metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Anchorage metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 405,821+1.9% since 2020
- Households
- 148,466
- Median age
- 36.6
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 67%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 26,410 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 15
- Median household income
- $100,505+21.0% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $127,837
- Median home value
- $379,100
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Anchorage, AK metro area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 16 funeral homes in the Anchorage metro area. 3 of them (19%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Anchorage, AK metro area spend on funerals?
About $16.1M a year, or $109 per household. That is 24% below the U.S. average (an index of 76, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 16 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $1M per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 148,466 households in the Anchorage metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Anchorage, AK metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Anchorage metro area has 1.1 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 48% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $1M, 48% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Anchorage metro area would have about 24, against 16 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 13,497 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Anchorage, AK metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Anchorage metro area at 405,821 people in 2025, up 1.9% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 148,466 households. The median household income in the Anchorage metro area is $100,505 a year, 24% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 21.0% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Anchorage metro area scores 58 for funeral homes (upper middle), #131 of 377 scored metro areas.
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