Households in Willow have higher incomes than those in 67% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Willow C; getting around on foot earns it C−. The poverty rate is 13.2%, where Alaska as a whole has 10.1%. At home: 19% of workers have no commute at all (Alaska 10%).
Census ACS 2020–24, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Willow earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Willow is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Willow’s grade up ($89,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.6%) is left out: Willow’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Willow could be anywhere from D to B.
Willow’s commute takes about 65 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 20.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Willow workers work from home, vs 10% across Alaska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 543 commuters (the 19% 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.
The commute in Willow is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Willow is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 9.9% across Alaska, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 669 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). 3.6% of Willow households have no vehicle (Alaska 9.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Willow’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, Willow ranks 3,649th of 5,656 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,246 | Prudhoe Bay AK | 1,664 | — | 6.3% | 1.2% | — | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,614 | North Pole AK | 2,477 | $92K | 4.9% | 4.6% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,748 | Bear Creek AK | 1,732 | $96K | 3.1% | 6.7% | — | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,647 | Beaverton Township MI | 1,880 | $68K | 10.4% | 5.5% | 3% | C |
| 3,648 | Monroe Township OH | 2,129 | $65K | 5.8% | 9.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,649 | Willow AK | 1,815 | $89K | 13.2% | 6.6% | — | C |
| 3,650 | Farmington IL | 2,298 | $65K | 11.0% | 9.9% | 15% | C |
| 3,651 | Eddyville KY | 2,306 | $56K | 8.9% | 2.8% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Willow, 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 Willow: questions
What is the median household income in Willow?
$89,000 (±$14,385) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $92,788 across Alaska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Willow?
13.2%, against 10.1% across Alaska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Willow?
65 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Alaska and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Is Willow walkable?
Willow is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Willow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Willow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Willow
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.