Photo: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve · CC BY 2.0Work, pay and getting to work in Shishmaref
Home is the office for 7% of workers, where Alaska as a whole has 10%. Working residents average 4 minutes each way (Alaska 19, U.S. 26). The poverty rate is 24.9%, against 10.1% across Alaska.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shishmaref’s commute takes about 4 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 1.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shishmaref workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 94 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 Shishmaref: questions
What is the median household income in Shishmaref?
$61,458 (±$6,158) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shishmaref?
24.9%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shishmaref?
4 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Can you get around Shishmaref without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 91% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shishmaref, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shishmaref
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates.