Rika's Landing Roadhouse · Photo: User:Lar · CC BY-SA 4.0Work, pay and getting to work in Big Delta
For 8% of workers, the job is at home, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. Working residents average 13 minutes each way (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). 0.5% of residents live below the poverty line, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How long Big Delta spends getting to work: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Big Delta workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 111 commuters (the 8% 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 Big Delta: questions
What is the median household income in Big Delta?
$104,653 (±$24,347) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Big Delta?
0.5%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Big Delta?
13 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Big Delta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Big Delta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Big Delta
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.