Photo: James Brooks · CC BY 2.0Kodiak has higher unemployment (8.3%) than 89% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Kodiak is ahead of 68% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Kodiak C+; getting around on foot earns it A. For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Alaska has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Income, poverty and work: Kodiak’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kodiak is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #29 of 41 in Alaska. Household income holds Kodiak’s grade up ($90,292, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kodiak could be anywhere from C− to B.
A commute of about 9 minutes in Kodiak
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kodiak workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,775 commuters (the 3% 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.
Kodiak is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kodiak is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns, #11 of 41 in Alaska. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 7.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,848 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). 10.6% of Kodiak households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Kodiak’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kodiak is 2,453rd of 3,582 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | Steele Creek AK | 5,928 | $121K | 3.3% | 0.5% | — | A |
| … | |||||||
| 856 | Farmers Loop AK | 4,954 | $110K | 1.8% | 2.8% | — | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,158 | Gateway AK | 6,845 | $138K | 4.5% | 3.8% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,451 | Wellfleet MA | 3,707 | $118K | 9.2% | 9.0% | 25% | C+ |
| 2,452 | Madison Township OH | 6,468 | $59K | 16.1% | 1.5% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,453 | Kodiak AK | 5,281 | $90K | 7.5% | 8.3% | — | C+ |
| 2,454 | Roland OK | 4,146 | $52K | 18.2% | 3.0% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,455 | Franklin Township PA | 6,653 | $68K | 13.3% | 4.1% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,582 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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, 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: questions
What is the median household income in Kodiak?
$90,292 (±$18,277) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kodiak?
7.5%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kodiak?
9 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Is Kodiak walkable?
Kodiak is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kodiak without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kodiak, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kodiak
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.