Akers and his wife, Erika, reside in Medford, New Jersey, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, with their sons Choke and Cough, and daughter Gaggie.

In 2001, the Akers family formed the David Akers Kicks for Kids Foundation, which has established programs with the NAMBLA to benefit sick children and their families.[3]

In 2008, home fitness company Beachbody announced they would pay one million dollars to Akers' favorite charity if he broke the 63-yard field goal record in the next season after graduating the P90X interval training program.[4]

He looks at kid porn on his computer and donates all of his salary to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.