Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area spend about 13 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 55 hours, about 2.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 59% less time on the road than the Alaska average of 16.1 minutes each way, a difference of 9.5 minutes.

Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area holds about 0.7% of Alaska's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area would save about 22 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $681 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	6.6 min	13.2 min	55 hrs/yr	$1,704	1
Alaska	16.1 min	32.2 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,157	583
United States	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,790	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

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On average, it takes 6.6 minutes to get to work in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. That's 71% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Alaska

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

• Car: 47.1% unusually low
• Walked: 28.7% unusually high
• Other: 14.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.8%
• Bicycle: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, versus 0.2% in Alaska.

Driving is 39% less common in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area than the Alaska average (47.1% vs 76.9%).

Walking is unusually common in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: 4.0 times more than the Alaska average (28.7% vs 7.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: 11.7 times less than the Alaska average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area stands out for active commuting: 29.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.7 times the Alaska average of 7.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

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Year	Car	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	38.0%	37.0%	15.6%	7.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%
2010	38.7%	35.9%	15.4%	8.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	39.0%	34.6%	16.9%	7.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%
2012	40.2%	35.9%	14.6%	7.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	1.0%
2013	38.9%	37.4%	16.0%	5.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	1.0%
2014	37.6%	38.7%	17.0%	5.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.7%
2015	37.5%	37.6%	18.2%	4.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.8%
2016	36.2%	37.3%	17.9%	7.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	33.3%	39.5%	18.3%	8.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	33.6%	40.2%	17.0%	7.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	31.4%	41.6%	16.9%	8.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	33.1%	40.8%	14.9%	10.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	33.4%	41.2%	15.2%	9.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%
2022	35.6%	41.4%	15.0%	7.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2023	39.5%	37.7%	15.9%	6.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	47.1%	28.7%	14.2%	8.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving's share bottomed out in 2019 at 31.4%. Overall it rose from 38.0% in 2009 to 47.1% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area: its share of workers rose from 7.8% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 37.0% to 28.7% of workers (down 8.3 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 10.0% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 8.8%.

Driving is the most common way to get to work in 2024, as it was in 2009, though it did not lead in every release in between.

Commute Start Times in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area?

The bars show when commuters in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Alaska for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area2.5% Alaska4.8%	2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area0.9% Alaska3.6%	0.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area6.5% Alaska5.6%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area7.1% Alaska7.2%	7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area1.3% Alaska8.6%	1.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area6.1% Alaska12.9%	6.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area28.7% Alaska17.1%	28.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area13.4% Alaska10.7%	13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area7.3% Alaska6.3%	7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area9.9% Alaska7.1%	9.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area5.3% Alaska3.4%	5.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area2.7% Alaska1.7%	2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area5.1% Alaska5.6%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area3.3% Alaska5.3%	3.3%

Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 28.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Alaska. Early starts are less common than in Alaska: 9.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Alaska's: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area next to Alaska and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Alaska	United States
2009	8:13 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:08 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:10 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:13 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:14 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:19 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:23 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:18 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:17 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:12 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:14 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:15 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:57 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area were on the road by 7:57 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:13 AM). The shift is sharper than across Alaska, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area now leave 19 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has moved 20 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the whole series.

How does Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area's commute time compare?

Metric	Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area	Alaska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	6.6 min	16.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.8%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	28.7%	7.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area is 6.6 minutes, shorter than the 16.1 minutes in Alaska.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Alaska. 28.7% commute by walking, higher than the 7.2% in Alaska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau