Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown · Public domainDillingham’s household incomes are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns
Commuters spend 10 minutes getting to work on average, where Alaska has 19 and the U.S. 26. Poverty touches 11.1% of residents; Alaska has 10.1%. The two grades for Dillingham are C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Dillingham’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dillingham is better than 31% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Dillingham’s grade up ($101,200, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dillingham could be anywhere from C− to B.
How long Dillingham spends getting to work: about 10 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dillingham workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 943 commuters (the 8% 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.
The commute in Dillingham is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dillingham is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 26.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,021 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). 13.6% of Dillingham households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Dillingham’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800, Dillingham ranks 3,177th of 5,148 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,204 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,554 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,679 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,175 | Williamsburg OH | 2,677 | $63K | 14.6% | 5.3% | 4% | C |
| 3,176 | Mills Township MI | 1,807 | $72K | 11.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,177 | Dillingham AK | 2,075 | $101K | 11.1% | 6.1% | — | C |
| 3,178 | Perry MI | 2,134 | $75K | 19.1% | 7.1% | 7% | C |
| 3,179 | Pinehurst TX | 2,206 | $50K | 12.1% | 2.9% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Dillingham, 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 Dillingham: questions
What is the median household income in Dillingham?
$101,200 (±$7,668) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dillingham?
11.1%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dillingham?
10 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Is Dillingham walkable?
Dillingham is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 27% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dillingham without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dillingham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dillingham
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.