Photo: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve · CC BY 2.0Jobs and earnings in Deering, and the trip to work
Below the poverty line: 15.4% of residents, next to 10.1% across Alaska. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 10% for Alaska as a whole. Commuters spend 10 minutes getting to work on average, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 10 minutes each way for Deering’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Deering workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 68 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 Deering: questions
What is the median household income in Deering?
$58,333 (±$12,902) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Deering?
15.4%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Deering?
10 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Deering without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 91% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Deering, from the people who make the trip.
More of Deering
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.