Photo: RadioKAOS · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Chena Ridge top those of 92% of U.S. towns
A typical one-way commute lasts 21 minutes, where Alaska has 19 and the U.S. 26. The poverty rate is 2.8%; Alaska has 10.1%. Jobs and income earn Chena Ridge B; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Chena Ridge’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Chena Ridge is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #7 of 41 in Alaska. The poverty rate holds Chena Ridge’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (7.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Chena Ridge could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Chena Ridge
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chena Ridge workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,422 commuters (the 10% 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.
Chena Ridge is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chena Ridge is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns, #34 of 41 in Alaska. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,706 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). 0.0% of Chena Ridge households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chena Ridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,900, Chena Ridge ranks 1,580th of 3,432 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 565 | Steele Creek AK | 5,928 | $121K | 3.3% | 0.5% | — | A |
| … | |||||||
| 832 | Farmers Loop AK | 4,954 | $110K | 1.8% | 2.8% | — | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,114 | Gateway AK | 6,845 | $138K | 4.5% | 3.8% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,578 | Washington Township IN | 7,010 | $71K | 12.5% | 2.8% | 13% | B |
| 1,579 | Greenwich NY | 4,842 | $74K | 5.3% | 3.0% | 15% | B |
| 1,580 | Chena Ridge AK | 5,881 | $134K | 2.8% | 7.3% | — | B |
| 1,581 | St. Clairsville OH | 4,926 | $76K | 11.6% | 1.4% | 13% | B |
| 1,582 | Hellertown PA | 6,138 | $73K | 4.8% | 8.1% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Chena Ridge, 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 Chena Ridge: questions
What is the median household income in Chena Ridge?
$133,775 (±$40,050) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chena Ridge?
2.8%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chena Ridge?
21 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Is Chena Ridge walkable?
Chena Ridge is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chena Ridge 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 Chena Ridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chena Ridge
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.