Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domainJobs and earnings in Ruby, and the trip to work
Commuters spend 11 minutes getting to work on average, where Alaska has 19 and the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers (Alaska 10%). 3.4% of residents live below the poverty line, against 10.1% across Alaska.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 11 minutes each way, quicker than most of Alaska
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ruby workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 77 commuters (the 7% 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 Ruby: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ruby?
3.4%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ruby?
11 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Ruby without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 41% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ruby, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ruby
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.