Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · AK · GEOID 2030002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Anchorage, Alaska
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 18.8 min one way; 10.9% worked from home, 69.9% drove alone, and 2.9% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip18.8 min±0.7 min MOE
Worked from home10.9%±0.7 pp MOE
Drove alone69.9%±1.3 pp MOE
60+ minute trip2.9%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Anchorage municipality's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.2 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.8 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Anchorage municipality residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 69.9%; 1.4% used public transit and 10.9% worked from home.
Each share uses 149,225 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Anchorage municipality compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 10th percentile among covered 100k–500k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 90% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 69% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 58% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 92% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Anchorage municipality's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 149,225 workers age 16+, including 132,951 workers with reported travel time and 16,274 home workers.
Population estimate288,976± — MOE
Workers age 16+149,225± 1,725 MOE
Workers with travel time132,951± 2,089 MOE
Estimated home workers16,274± 998 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Alaska reports →Comparable Alaska commute records for Anchorage municipality
No other Alaska place in the 100k–500k population band met the same publication rule in this dataset.