Oddfellows House · Photo: Durkeeco · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Farmers Loop top those of 84% of U.S. towns
Working residents average 22 minutes each way (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). The poverty rate is 1.8%, against 10.1% across Alaska. Jobs and income earn Farmers Loop A−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Farmers Loop’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Farmers Loop is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #2 of 41 in Alaska. The poverty rate holds Farmers Loop’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Farmers Loop could be anywhere from B to A.
How long Farmers Loop spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farmers Loop workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,450 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.
Driving is how Farmers Loop gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Farmers Loop is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #24 of 41 in Alaska. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,625 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). 0.6% of Farmers Loop households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Farmers Loop’s commuters take a bus or train.
Farmers Loop is 844th of 3,692 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 579 | Steele Creek AK | 5,928 | $121K | 3.3% | 0.5% | — | A |
| … | |||||||
| 842 | Ida Township MI | 4,808 | $108K | 2.3% | 5.1% | 6% | A− |
| 843 | Cedarburg WI | 6,169 | $124K | 4.5% | 6.3% | 2% | A− |
| 844 | Farmers Loop AK | 4,954 | $110K | 1.8% | 2.8% | — | A− |
| 845 | St. Augustine South FL | 4,714 | $76K | 1.8% | 2.6% | 2% | A− |
| 846 | Hadley Township MI | 4,555 | $111K | 4.3% | 3.6% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,530 | Mill Bay AK | 3,654 | $89K | 9.0% | 0.0% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,646 | Chena Ridge AK | 5,881 | $134K | 2.8% | 7.3% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,692 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Farmers 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 Farmers Loop: questions
What is the median household income in Farmers Loop?
$109,950 (±$14,121) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Farmers Loop?
1.8%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farmers Loop?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Is Farmers Loop walkable?
Farmers Loop is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Farmers Loop without a car?
<1% 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 Farmers Loop, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farmers 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.