Photo: Thester11 · CC BY-SA 3.0Work and commuting in Atqasuk
Poverty touches 13.9% of residents (Alaska 10.1%). Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 10% across Alaska. A typical one-way commute lasts 4 minutes; Alaska averages 19, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 4 minutes each way for Atqasuk’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atqasuk workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 110 commuters (the 0% 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 Atqasuk: questions
What is the median household income in Atqasuk?
$90,625 (±$9,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Atqasuk?
13.9%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atqasuk?
4 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Atqasuk without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 30% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atqasuk, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atqasuk
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.