Jobs and the daily commute in Holy Cross

Below the poverty line: 11.2% of residents, next to 10.1% for Alaska as a whole. For 37% of workers, the job is at home, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. The average commute takes 5 minutes each way, 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

Poverty

11.2%

Alaska 10.1%

Unemployment

3.4%

Alaska 5.9% · U.S. 5.2%

Alaska 10% · U.S. 15%

Time on the road

Holy Cross’ commute takes about 5 minutes

A year of commuting

35 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.5 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Holy Cross5 min

Alaska19 min

U.S.26 min

Working from home

37%

of Holy Cross workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.

About 4 in 10

How Holy Cross gets to work

19%Drive alone

11%Carpool

2%Transit

30%Walk

39%Other

Share of the 54 commuters (the 37% 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.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →