Photo: Beeblebrox · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in Kachemak, AK
Below the poverty line: 19.1% of residents, next to 10.1% across Alaska. Working from home is the commute for 29% of workers, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. A typical one-way commute lasts 14 minutes, 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
How long Kachemak spends getting to work: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kachemak workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 202 commuters (the 29% 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 Kachemak: questions
What is the median household income in Kachemak?
$76,750 (±$22,606) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kachemak?
19.1%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kachemak?
14 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Kachemak 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 Kachemak, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kachemak
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.