Photo: Jet Lowe · Public domainJobs, pay and the trip to work in Angoon
For 5% of workers, the job is at home, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. The trip to work takes 16 minutes on average; Alaska averages 19, the U.S. 26. 19.4% of residents are in poverty, against 10.1% across Alaska.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily trip from Angoon: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angoon workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 142 commuters (the 5% 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.
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 Angoon: questions
What is the median household income in Angoon?
$45,288 (±$9,085) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angoon?
19.4%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angoon?
16 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Angoon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 34% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Angoon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angoon
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.