Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Alamo earns its living
Working residents average 28 minutes each way; Nevada averages 25, the U.S. 26. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, next to 12% for Nevada as a whole. About one in seven work in Alamo itself; outside it, Pioche draws the most (18%, 56 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Alamo, in a few figures
A big share show a job far from home
73% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Alamo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Alamo is Pioche, 56 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (43) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Alamo workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 12% across Nevada. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 240 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How far it is to work from Alamo
About 73% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28 minutes each way for Alamo’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Alamo workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 338 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Nevada: 80% drive alone, 3% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The daily commute in and out of Alamo
On a workday 208 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Alamo goes to work
Where Alamo clocks in
10% 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.
What the 198 jobs in Alamo are
198 jobs are based in Alamo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Alamo, 2013 → 2023: 72 → 198. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alamo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Alamo: questions
What is the median household income in Alamo?
$70,136 (±$38,764) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Alamo?
0.0%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Alamo?
28 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Alamo work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pioche (18%, 56 mi), Caliente (10%, 41 mi), Paradise (9%, 89 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Alamo 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 Alamo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Alamo
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.