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Work & commute in Fish Springs · A commuter town

100% of Fish Springs’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Fish Springs for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Reno (13%), Carson (13%) and Minden (13%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Work in town
0%
0 of 208 working residents
Typical commute
16 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
34 min
More than NV (25 min)
Work from home
11%
Less than NV (12%)
Jobs based here
74
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Fish Springs?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

13% of working residents work in Reno

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

South Lake Tahoe: 5 residents work here (2%)Sacramento: 3 residents work here (1%)Sparks: 5 residents work here (2%)Reno: 28 residents work here (13%)Las VegasCarson: 28 residents work here (13%)Stateline: 8 residents work here (4%)Minden: 27 residents work here (13%)Gardnerville: 18 residents work here (9%)East Valley: 18 residents work here (9%)Fish SpringsGardnerville RanchosIndian Hills: 4 residents work here (2%)Johnson LaneDaytonRenoCarsonMindenGardnervilleEast ValleyStatelineFish Springs
1
Reno42.5 mi away
13%28
2
Carson14.7 mi away
13%28
3
Minden6.3 mi away
13%27
4
Gardnerville4.7 mi away
9%18
5
East Valley2.4 mi away
9%18
6
Stateline15.8 mi away
4%8
72%5
8
Sparks43 mi away
2%5
9
Indian Hills12.4 mi away
2%4
10
Sacramento, CA101.5 mi away
1%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
31%64
The top trips

Where Fish Springs clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 34 minutes each way, longer than most of Nevada

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
257 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Fish Springs34 min
Nevada25 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
11%

of Fish Springs workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Fish Springs quiets down on a workday

On a workday 208 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere.

208live here, work elsewhere
0live and work here
74work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night530
Workday390
530live here− 210head out to work+ 74come in to work= 390on a workday

About 390 people are in Fish Springs on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.36jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.36 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 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Fish Springs commutes less than 16 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miReno: 13% · 42.5 miCarson: 13% · 14.7 miMinden: 13% · 6.3 miGardnerville: 9% · 4.7 miEast Valley: 9% · 2.4 miStateline: 4% · 15.8 miSouth Lake Tahoe: 2% · 17.8 miSparks: 2% · 43 miIndian Hills: 2% · 12.4 miSacramento: 1% · 101.5 miReno 13%Carson 13%Minden 13%Gardnerville 9%East Valley 9%Fish Springs
Fish SpringsTop destinations (size = commuters)
44%Under 10 mi89 residents
26%10–24 mi53 residents
21%25–50 mi42 residents
9%Over 50 mi18 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

Fish Springs makes things: 64% of its jobs are in goods

74 jobs are based in Fish Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fish Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fish SpringsJobs Fish Springs residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms64%19%
Trade, transport & utilities1%16%
Services: health, schools, offices35%64%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less8%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month18%21%
Over $3,333 a month74%66%

Who does it

29 or younger22%14%
30 to 5449%44%
55 and older30%42%
+289%

Jobs based in Fish Springs, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 74. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Next door

Fish Springs and the towns next door

The biggest share goes to East Valley (9%). Darker towns draw more of Fish Springs’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.
  • Where the employer says. A job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.
  • Two surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.

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