Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shorezone/ · CC BY 2.0Jobs and the daily commute in Kivalina
1% of workers have no commute at all (Alaska 10%). Commuters spend 5 minutes getting to work on average; the Alaska average is 19, the U.S. 26. 22.2% of residents live below the poverty line, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How long Kivalina spends getting to work: about 5 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kivalina workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 176 commuters (the 1% 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 Kivalina: questions
What is the median household income in Kivalina?
$72,589 (±$15,765) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kivalina?
22.2%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kivalina?
5 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Kivalina without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 94% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kivalina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kivalina
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.