Where Pitkas Point earns its living
Commuters spend 6 minutes getting to work on average; Alaska averages 19, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. Below the poverty line: 46.7% of residents (Alaska 10.1%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How long Pitkas Point spends getting to work: about 6 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pitkas Point workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 36 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 Pitkas Point: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pitkas Point?
46.7%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pitkas Point?
6 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Pitkas Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 69% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pitkas Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pitkas Point
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.