Chief Son-I-Hat's Whale House and Totems Historic District · Public domainWork, pay and getting to work in Kasaan
Poverty touches 22.7% of residents, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. 0% of workers have no commute at all (Alaska 10%). Commuters spend 26 minutes getting to work on average, 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
About 26 minutes each way for Kasaan’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kasaan workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 23 commuters (the 0% 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 Kasaan: questions
What is the poverty rate in Kasaan?
22.7%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kasaan?
26 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Kasaan without a car?
22% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kasaan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kasaan
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.