Carlin has lower household incomes than 73% of U.S. towns
3% of workers have no commute at all; Nevada has 12%. Poverty touches 6.5% of residents (Nevada 12.4%). Carlin grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Carlin at work: what stands out
Carlin is where the jobs are
Carlin has 1,100 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Carlin and Elko trade workers both ways
Elko is the top workplace for Carlin residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Carlin come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Carlin makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Carlin are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Carlin residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 36%. The jobs ↓
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 632 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Carlin earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Carlin is better than 29% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Carlin’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Carlin’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Carlin could be anywhere from D to B−.
How many people are in Carlin by day
On a workday 505 residents head out to work, 127 work right here, and 973 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Carlin on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Commuting in to Carlin: where workers come from
Where Carlin clocks in
26% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Carlin works in goods: 58% of its jobs
1,100 jobs are based in Carlin.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carlin, 2013 → 2023: 986 → 1,100. 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 Carlin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Carlin, about 22 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carlin workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 802 commuters (the 3% 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 commute from Carlin, by distance
About 28% 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.
The commute in Carlin is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carlin is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 830 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.7% of Carlin households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 10% of Carlin’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,459th of 5,509: where Carlin ranks among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,378 | Kingsbury NV | 2,209 | $96K | 1.1% | 4.5% | 16% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,440 | Sandy Valley NV | 1,742 | $58K | 5.8% | 13.2% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,135 | Ruhenstroth NV | 1,682 | $105K | 14.1% | 0.4% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,457 | South Whitley IN | 1,850 | $58K | 13.8% | 4.4% | 7% | C |
| 3,458 | Hagerstown IN | 1,673 | $56K | 10.7% | 3.9% | 18% | C |
| 3,459 | Carlin NV | 2,011 | $61K | 6.5% | 1.6% | 20% | C |
| 3,460 | Newville PA | 1,409 | $59K | 17.0% | 6.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,461 | Central Lake Township MI | 2,276 | $70K | 8.0% | 3.9% | 13% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Carlin, the top three, the last and three more from Nevada.
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 Carlin: questions
What is the median household income in Carlin?
$60,898 (±$8,244) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carlin?
6.5%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carlin?
22 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carlin work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elko (26%, 20 mi), Sparks (4%, 206 mi), Wells (2%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carlin walkable?
Carlin is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carlin without a car?
10% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carlin, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carlin
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.