Photo: Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Cal-Nev-Ari works elsewhere
Only 2% work in Cal-Nev-Ari; the top destination outside it is Henderson (15%, 50 miles). Employers in Cal-Nev-Ari report 5 jobs; 48 of its residents have a job. Poverty touches 68.7% of residents, against 12.4% across Nevada.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Cal-Nev-Ari for work, and who comes in
On a workday 47 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Cal-Nev-Ari on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Cal-Nev-Ari: the destinations
Where Cal-Nev-Ari clocks in
15% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Cal-Nev-Ari
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cal-Nev-Ari, 2013 → 2023: 19 → 5. 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 Cal-Nev-Ari’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cal-Nev-Ari
About 47% 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.
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 Cal-Nev-Ari: questions
What is the poverty rate in Cal-Nev-Ari?
68.7%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Cal-Nev-Ari work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Henderson (15%, 50 mi), Las Vegas (8%, 68 mi), North Las Vegas (4%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cal-Nev-Ari, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cal-Nev-Ari
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.