Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domainHow Chignik works: jobs, income and commuting
A typical one-way commute lasts 3 minutes, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Alaska has 10%. 11.1% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 10.1% for Alaska as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How long Chignik spends getting to work: about 3 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chignik workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 17 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 Chignik: questions
What is the poverty rate in Chignik?
11.1%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chignik?
3 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Chignik without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chignik, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chignik
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.