Pilot Station () is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 615 at the 2020 census, up from 568 in 2010, and up from 550 in 2000.
Pilot Station is located at (61.936050, -162.883403), on the northern bank of the lower Yukon River, approximately eighty miles ('as the crow flies') from the Bering Sea.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (25.55%) is water.
Pilot Station first appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Eskimo (Yup'ik) village of "Ankahchagmiut." It did not report again until 1920, then as Pilot Station. It formally incorporated in 1969.
As of the 2020 census, Pilot Station had a population of 615, with 152 households and 73 families. The population density was . There were 152 housing units at an average density of .
The median age was 24.4 years. 41.5% of residents were under the age of 18 and 4.9% were 65 years of age or older. There were 299 females and 316 males; for every 100 females there were 105.7 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 102.2 males age 18 and over.
0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 152 households in Pilot Station, of which 61.8% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 34.2% were married-couple households, 21.7% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 30.3% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 17.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Of the 152 housing units, 0.0% were vacant. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.0% and the rental vacancy rate was 0.0%.
{The median household income was $31,071 and the median family income was $27,411. Males had a median income of $27,917 and females $16,667. The per capita income was $7,311. About 25.3% of families and 28.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 26.0% of those under age 18 and 28.1% of those age 65 or over.} [2000 data]
K-12 students attend Pilot Station School, operated by the Lower Yukon School District.