Kodiak Naval Operating Base and Forts Greely and Abercrombie · Photo: U.S. Coast Guard, SPC Jeff Parks · Public domainMill Bay has some of the lowest unemployment in the country, with hardly anyone out of work
Working residents average 11 minutes each way (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). For jobs and income Mill Bay is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (C−). Household incomes here are higher than in 66% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Mill Bay: the grade in detail
Unemployment holds Mill Bay’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mill Bay could be anywhere from C to A−.
From Mill Bay, about 11 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mill Bay workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,807 commuters (the 5% 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.
In Mill Bay, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,912 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). 0.0% of Mill Bay households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mill Bay’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mill Bay is 1,579th among 4,210 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 4,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,567 | Goldstream AK | 3,294 | $104K | 4.7% | 3.7% | — | B |
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| 1,577 | Chelsea ME | 2,848 | $85K | 8.7% | 2.8% | 8% | B |
| 1,578 | Norwich NY | 3,499 | $63K | 4.3% | 0.7% | 15% | B |
| 1,579 | Mill Bay AK | 3,654 | $89K | 9.0% | 0.0% | — | B |
| 1,580 | Holiday Shores IL | 2,782 | $87K | 4.1% | 7.1% | 1% | B |
| 1,581 | Caledonia MN | 2,768 | $76K | 8.9% | 1.5% | 35% | B |
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| 1,929 | Butte AK | 4,085 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | — | B− |
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| 2,117 | Unalaska AK | 4,306 | $132K | 9.6% | 4.3% | — | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,210 | 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 Mill Bay, 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 Mill Bay: questions
What is the median household income in Mill Bay?
$88,580 (±$44,856) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mill Bay?
9.0%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mill Bay?
11 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Is Mill Bay walkable?
Mill Bay is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mill Bay without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mill Bay, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mill Bay
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.