Work & commute · Las Vegas

Work & commute in Las Vegas, NV

About one in 3 of Las Vegas’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Paradise (24%), North Las Vegas (9%) and Spring Valley (7%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34%

92,011 of 271,484 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 179,473 Las Vegas residents head out of town to work, 92,011 work right here, and 173,099 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Las Vegas.

179,473live here, work elsewhere

92,011live and work here

173,099work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Las Vegas goes to work

Las Vegas (in town)right here

34%92,011

Paradise12.4 mi away

24%65,730

North Las Vegas10.5 mi away

9%23,793

Spring Valley9.6 mi away

7%20,205

Henderson20.7 mi away

5%14,602

Enterprise15.6 mi away

5%13,768

Sunrise Manor12.6 mi away

3%8,645

Winchester9.7 mi away

3%7,535

Summerlin South8.5 mi away

2%4,909

Reno339 mi away

1%2,338

Everywhere elseother towns and states

7%17,948

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Las Vegas commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

64%

31%

64%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Las Vegas is balanced between jobs and homes

0.98jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Las Vegas are

265,110 jobs are based in Las Vegas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Las Vegas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Las Vegas

265,110 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Las Vegas residents hold

271,484 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+22%

Jobs based in Las Vegas, 2013 → 2023: 216,697 → 265,110. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe 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 saysA 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 surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.