Carter Springs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any stay in Carter Springs for work; outside it, Reno is the main destination (13%, 49 miles). Carter Springs has 24 jobs, and 209 of its residents work somewhere. A typical one-way commute lasts 32 minutes, next to 25 for Nevada and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Carter Springs: the figures worth knowing
Carter Springs’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Carter Springs is Reno, 49 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (28) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Carter Springs is a place people come home to
There are 24 jobs based in Carter Springs, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Carter Springs has about 340 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Carter Springs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 25 across Nevada. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 209 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The commute from Carter Springs, by distance
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Who commutes out of Carter Springs, and who commutes in
On a workday 209 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 24 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Carter Springs on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 32 minutes to work from Carter Springs
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carter Springs workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 245 commuters (the 10% 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.
Where Carter Springs goes to work
Where Carter Springs clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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.
Goods, not services: 50% of the jobs in Carter Springs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carter Springs, 2014 → 2024: 1 → 24. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Carter Springs’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 2024, 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 Carter Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Carter Springs?
$91,667 (±$15,228) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carter Springs?
4.8%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carter Springs?
32 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carter Springs work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (13%, 49 mi), Carson City (11%, 21 mi), Minden (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Carter Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carter Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carter Springs
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.