Photo: National Park Service · Public domainHow Kobuk works: jobs, income and commuting
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 10% for Alaska as a whole. A typical one-way commute lasts 12 minutes (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). 25.7% of residents are in poverty (Alaska 10.1%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Each way, about 12 minutes from Kobuk
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kobuk workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 26 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 Kobuk: questions
What is the median household income in Kobuk?
$37,917 (±$24,644) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kobuk?
25.7%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kobuk?
12 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Kobuk without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 84% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kobuk, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kobuk
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.