Photo: James Brooks · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Kodiak Station are higher than in 61% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers; Alaska has 10%. 3.2% of residents are in poverty, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. The two grades for Kodiak Station are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Kodiak Station
On income, poverty and job access, Kodiak Station is better than 54% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Kodiak Station’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Kodiak Station’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kodiak Station could be anywhere from C− to B+.
About 8 minutes to work from Kodiak Station
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kodiak Station workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,018 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Kodiak Station
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kodiak Station is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,028 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.6% of Kodiak Station households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kodiak Station’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Kodiak Station is 1,971st among 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,246 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,614 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,748 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,969 | Trail Creek IN | 1,987 | $78K | 6.6% | 6.8% | <1% | B− |
| 1,970 | Upper Frankford Township PA | 2,309 | $78K | 10.9% | 3.6% | 1% | B− |
| 1,971 | Kodiak Station AK | 1,823 | $84K | 3.2% | 0.0% | — | B− |
| 1,972 | South Creek WA | 2,191 | $85K | 3.2% | 5.9% | 1% | B− |
| 1,973 | Hamilton GA | 1,824 | $92K | 11.4% | 6.9% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Kodiak Station, the top three, the last and three more from Alaska.
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 Kodiak Station: questions
What is the median household income in Kodiak Station?
$83,750 (±$32,969) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kodiak Station?
3.2%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kodiak Station?
8 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Is Kodiak Station walkable?
Kodiak Station is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kodiak Station without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kodiak Station, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kodiak Station
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.