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Funeral homes in Anchorage Municipality, AK
How Anchorage Municipality, AK compares with other counties and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 59 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #496 of 1,472 scored counties
#2 of 2 scored counties in Alaska
- Listings
- 10
- 3 chain locations (30%)
- Official establishments
- 8
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $11.5M
- On funerals · $106 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.2M
- 70% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.9
- 57% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 287,155
- −1.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 10 funeral homes in Anchorage Municipality. Chain locations make up 30% of them, against 10% across the U.S. That is 0.9 per 10,000 households, 57% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Households in Anchorage Municipality spend about $11.5M a year on funerals, or $106 per household, 26% below the U.S. average. Spread across 10 funeral homes, that is $1.2M per home, 70% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in Anchorage Municipality in 2023. That is one for every 13,575 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 Anchorage Municipality.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Anchorage Municipality declined 1.3%, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for funeral homes in Anchorage Municipality is 59 (upper middle), #496 of 1,472 scored counties and #2 of 2 scored counties in Alaska.
How Anchorage Municipality 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 Municipality | Alaska | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.9 | 1.0 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.2M | $1.1M | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 13,575 | 15,030 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.3% | +0.6% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $106 | $112 | $143 |
| Median household income | $103,284 | $92,788 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 59 | 57 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 7 → 8
- Employees, 2023
- 52
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.3M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 103 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 17The 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 Anchorage Municipality, 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 Anchorage Municipality
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 287,155−1.3% since 2020
- Households
- 108,597
- Median age
- 36.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 64%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,707 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 169
- Median household income
- $103,284+21.6% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $132,200
- Median home value
- $395,900
- Jobs located here
- n/a
- Daytime population
- n/aResidents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Alaska
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 69 | 6 | 1.5 | $763K | +10.4% | #260 of 1,472 |
| 2Anchorage Municipality, AK | 59 | 10 | 0.9 | $1.2M | −1.3% | #496 of 1,472 |
Other business types in Anchorage Municipality
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in Anchorage Municipality, AK?
There are 10 funeral homes on map listings in Anchorage Municipality as of September 2026. 3 of them (30%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 8 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in Anchorage Municipality, AK spend on funerals?
About $11.5M a year, or $106 per household. That is 26% below the U.S. average (an index of 74, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $1.2M per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 108,597 households in Anchorage Municipality and national spending patterns by income.
How does Anchorage Municipality, AK compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
Anchorage Municipality has 0.9 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 57% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $1.2M, 70% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, Anchorage Municipality would have about 17, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 13,575 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is Anchorage Municipality, AK growing?
Population estimates put Anchorage Municipality at 287,155 people in 2025, down 1.3% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 108,597 households. Median household income in Anchorage Municipality is $103,284, 28% above the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 21.6%, 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. Anchorage Municipality scores 59 for funeral homes (upper middle), #496 of 1,472 scored counties.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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