Household incomes in Tok are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
14.5% of residents are in poverty, next to 10.1% for Alaska as a whole. The two grades for Tok are D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Commuters spend 11 minutes getting to work on average, next to 19 for Alaska and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Tok earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tok is better than 11% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Tok’s grade up ($64,063, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Tok’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tok could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Time on the road from Tok: about 11 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tok workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 519 commuters (the 12% 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.
Tok is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tok is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 588 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.1% of Tok households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tok’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,421st of 5,381: where Tok ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,123 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,600 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,802 | Kodiak Station AK | 1,823 | $84K | 3.2% | 0.0% | — | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,419 | Scio NY | 1,623 | $62K | 17.6% | 7.5% | 3% | D |
| 4,420 | Boggs Township PA | 1,620 | $61K | 22.7% | 8.1% | 1% | D |
| 4,421 | Tok AK | 1,649 | $64K | 14.5% | 5.8% | — | D |
| 4,422 | Rancho Alegre TX | 1,337 | $49K | 23.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D |
| 4,423 | Geneva IN | 1,293 | $53K | 21.5% | 5.9% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Tok, the top three, the last and three more from Alaska.
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 Tok: questions
What is the median household income in Tok?
$64,063 (±$14,977) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tok?
14.5%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tok?
11 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Is Tok walkable?
Tok is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tok without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tok, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tok
Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.