How Point MacKenzie works: jobs, income and commuting
14% of workers work from home, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. Commuters spend 42 minutes getting to work on average; the Alaska average is 19, the U.S. 26. 7.3% of residents live below the poverty line (Alaska 10.1%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Each way, about 42 minutes from Point MacKenzie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Point MacKenzie workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 14% 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 Point MacKenzie: questions
What is the poverty rate in Point MacKenzie?
7.3%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Point MacKenzie?
42 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Point MacKenzie 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 Point MacKenzie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Point MacKenzie
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.