Household incomes in Cohoe are lower than in 68% of U.S. towns
The trip to work takes 29 minutes on average, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. 17.7% of residents are in poverty, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. For jobs and income Cohoe is better than 8% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Cohoe earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Cohoe’s grade up ($63,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (11.2%) is left out: Cohoe’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cohoe could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 29 minutes to work from Cohoe
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cohoe workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 506 commuters (the 12% 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.
Cohoe is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 576 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). 5.1% of Cohoe households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cohoe’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Cohoe is 5,315th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,251 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,778 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,014 | Kodiak Station AK | 1,823 | $84K | 3.2% | 0.0% | — | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,313 | Bethel Township MI | 1,466 | $63K | 28.7% | 2.2% | 1% | D |
| 5,314 | Sheffield Township PA | 1,755 | $58K | 15.8% | 0.0% | 14% | D |
| 5,315 | Cohoe AK | 1,598 | $64K | 17.7% | 11.2% | — | D |
| 5,316 | Talmage CA | 1,128 | $45K | 23.0% | 6.5% | 1% | D |
| 5,317 | Brilliant OH | 1,213 | $44K | 16.2% | 4.3% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Cohoe, 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 Cohoe: questions
What is the median household income in Cohoe?
$63,500 (±$20,235) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cohoe?
17.7%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cohoe?
29 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Is Cohoe walkable?
Cohoe is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cohoe without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cohoe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cohoe
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.