Photo: woodsm · CC BY-SA 2.0How Nikolaevsk works: jobs, income and commuting
Working residents average 38 minutes each way, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S. Home is the office for 16% of workers (Alaska 10%). The poverty rate is 32.2%, against 10.1% across Alaska.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
From Nikolaevsk, about 38 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nikolaevsk workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 90 commuters (the 16% 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 Nikolaevsk: questions
What is the median household income in Nikolaevsk?
$60,750 (±$11,369) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nikolaevsk?
32.2%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nikolaevsk?
38 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Nikolaevsk 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 Nikolaevsk, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nikolaevsk
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.