Photo: US Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domainWhere Cold Bay earns its living
The trip to work takes 5 minutes on average; Alaska averages 19, the U.S. 26. 7% of workers have no commute at all (Alaska 10%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily trip from Cold Bay: about 5 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cold Bay workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 77 commuters (the 7% 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 Cold Bay: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cold Bay?
0.0%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cold Bay?
5 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Cold Bay without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cold Bay, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cold Bay
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.