Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0How Salcha works: jobs, income and commuting
2% of workers work from home (Alaska 10%). A typical one-way commute lasts 35 minutes (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). Below the poverty line: 8.8% of residents, next to 10.1% across Alaska.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
About 35 minutes to work from Salcha
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salcha workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 commuters (the 1% 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 Salcha: questions
What is the median household income in Salcha?
$87,803 (±$39,757) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salcha?
8.8%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salcha?
35 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Salcha without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salcha, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salcha
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.