Photo: Chris Flook · CC BY-SA 4.0How Fairbanks works: jobs, income and commuting
Hardly any work in Fairbanks itself; outside it, Robinson draws the most (14%, 18 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers (Indiana 11%). The Census job records count 22 working residents of Fairbanks and no jobs based in it.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Fairbanks quiets down on a workday
On a workday 22 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Fairbanks on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Fairbanks: the destinations
Where Fairbanks clocks in
14% of workers
14% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Working from home in Fairbanks
of Fairbanks workers work from home, vs 11% across Indiana. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 84 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Indiana: 85% 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.
How far it is to work from Fairbanks
About 23% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Fairbanks workers work outside Indiana. The job records count 14% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fairbanks: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fairbanks?
0.0%, against 12.3% across Indiana and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fairbanks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Robinson (14%, 18 mi), Sullivan (14%, 10 mi), Hymera (9%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Fairbanks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fairbanks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairbanks
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.