Farm Loop has higher household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
A typical one-way commute lasts 29 minutes; Alaska averages 19, the U.S. 26. 5.7% of residents are in poverty, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. For jobs and income Farm Loop is better than 47% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Farm Loop earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Farm Loop’s grade up ($119,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Farm Loop could be anywhere from C to A−.
How long Farm Loop spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farm Loop workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,143 commuters (the 13% 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.
Few in Farm Loop walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,313 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). 1.1% of Farm Loop households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Farm Loop’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900, Farm Loop ranks 2,454th of 4,882 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,673 | Goldstream AK | 3,294 | $104K | 4.7% | 3.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,683 | Mill Bay AK | 3,654 | $89K | 9.0% | 0.0% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,750 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,452 | Lumberland NY | 2,306 | $103K | 10.0% | 3.8% | 7% | B− |
| 2,453 | Woodward Township PA | 2,018 | $73K | 10.1% | 3.5% | 2% | B− |
| 2,454 | Farm Loop AK | 2,894 | $119K | 5.7% | 7.3% | — | B− |
| 2,455 | Key Center WA | 3,544 | $106K | 7.7% | 6.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,456 | Cuba NY | 3,065 | $76K | 12.2% | 2.4% | 22% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Farm Loop, 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 Farm Loop: questions
What is the median household income in Farm Loop?
$119,375 (±$22,147) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Farm Loop?
5.7%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farm Loop?
29 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Is Farm Loop walkable?
Farm Loop is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Farm Loop without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Farm Loop, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farm Loop
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.