Photo: U.S. Forest Service · Public domainHousehold incomes in Craig are lower than in 62% of U.S. towns
7.9% of residents are in poverty, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. Jobs and income earn Craig C; getting around on foot earns it A. 3% of workers work from home (Alaska 10%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Craig: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Craig is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Craig’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Craig’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, Craig could be anywhere from C− to C+.
The daily trip from Craig: about 12 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Craig workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 594 commuters (the 3% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Craig
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Craig is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 31.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 610 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). 7.1% of Craig households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Craig’s commuters take a bus or train.
Craig places 1,874th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 962 | Diamond Ridge AK | 1,329 | $88K | 3.9% | 2.3% | — | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,138 | Skagway AK | 1,174 | $89K | 6.2% | 9.3% | — | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,872 | Knox PA | 1,068 | $69K | 12.9% | 7.5% | 6% | C |
| 1,873 | Fifth Ward LA | 1,277 | $51K | 5.7% | 5.0% | 1% | C |
| 1,874 | Craig AK | 1,062 | $68K | 7.9% | 4.6% | — | C |
| 1,875 | Wyoming IL | 1,287 | $60K | 11.8% | 2.4% | 9% | C |
| 1,876 | Valley Mills TX | 1,293 | $52K | 12.0% | 1.9% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,231 | Metlakatla AK | 1,235 | $72K | 13.5% | 7.6% | — | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Craig, 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 Craig: questions
What is the median household income in Craig?
$67,778 (±$8,615) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Craig?
7.9%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Craig?
12 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Is Craig walkable?
Craig is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 31% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Craig without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Craig, from the people who make the trip.
More of Craig
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.