Photo: Janelle Carl · CC BY 2.0Jobs and earnings in Kipnuk, and the trip to work
Working residents average 5 minutes each way, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. 0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 10% for Alaska as a whole. The poverty rate is 48.3%, next to 10.1% for Alaska as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How long Kipnuk spends getting to work: about 5 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kipnuk workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 147 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 Kipnuk: questions
What is the median household income in Kipnuk?
$45,250 (±$31,820) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kipnuk?
48.3%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kipnuk?
5 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Kipnuk without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 99% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kipnuk, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kipnuk
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.