Photo: Denali National Park and Preserve · Public domainHow Nikolai works: jobs, income and commuting
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. Commuters spend 5 minutes getting to work on average; the Alaska average is 19, the U.S. 26. 15.9% of residents are in poverty, next to 10.1% for Alaska as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 5 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alaska
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nikolai workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 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 Nikolai: questions
What is the poverty rate in Nikolai?
15.9%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nikolai?
5 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Nikolai without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 89% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Nikolai, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nikolai
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.