Photo: Beeblebrox · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Anchor Point trail those of 69% of U.S. towns
Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). Below the poverty line: 14.4% of residents, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. Anchor Point grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Anchor Point earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Anchor Point is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Anchor Point’s grade up ($63,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.1%) is left out: Anchor Point’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Anchor Point could be anywhere from D− to C−.
About 23 minutes each way for Anchor Point’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anchor Point workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 741 commuters (the 13% who work from home are left out). Across Alaska: 72% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In Anchor Point, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Anchor Point is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 853 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.7% of Anchor Point households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Anchor Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Anchor Point is 4,351st of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,229 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,593 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,715 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,349 | Canby MN | 1,674 | $58K | 14.9% | 6.7% | 39% | D |
| 4,350 | Blue Creek Township IN | 1,600 | $59K | 26.0% | 3.7% | 1% | D |
| 4,351 | Anchor Point AK | 2,243 | $63K | 14.4% | 8.1% | — | D |
| 4,352 | Jefferson Township IN | 2,024 | $66K | 13.4% | 16.4% | 23% | D |
| 4,353 | Rosita TX | 2,933 | $37K | 12.0% | 8.1% | 30% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Anchor Point, the top three, the last and three more from Alaska.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Anchor Point: questions
What is the median household income in Anchor Point?
$63,000 (±$9,985) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Anchor Point?
14.4%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anchor Point?
23 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Is Anchor Point walkable?
Anchor Point is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Anchor Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anchor Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anchor Point
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.