 The per capita income for the city was $7,550.About 26.7% of families and 29.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.5% of those under age 18 and 13.3% of those age 65 or over.John Pingayak, an actor and educator, won the Milken Educator Awards in 1992 and played an Inupiat whaling captain in the 2012 film "Big Miracle", about the rescue of two gray whales in Utqiagvik, Alaska in 1988.