How Kake works: jobs, income and commuting

Home is the office for 11% of workers, against 10% across Alaska. A typical one-way commute lasts 5 minutes, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. 20.0% of residents live below the poverty line; Alaska has 10.1%.

Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

Household income

$52K

Alaska 5.9% · U.S. 5.2%

Alaska 10% · U.S. 15%

Time on the road

The trip to work from Kake: about 5 minutes

A year of commuting

41 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.7 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Kake5 min

Alaska19 min

U.S.26 min

Working from home

11%

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

About 1 in 10

How Kake gets to work

63%Drive alone

17%Carpool

17%Walk

2%Other

Share of the 191 commuters (the 11% 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 →