Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0Crescent Valley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Crescent Valley report 41 jobs; 149 of its residents have a job. Only 1% stay in Crescent Valley for work; outside it, Eureka is the main destination (19%, 71 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home; Nevada has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Crescent Valley by day and by night
On a workday 147 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 580 people are in Crescent Valley 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.
Where Crescent Valley goes to work
Where Crescent Valley clocks in
19% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
71% of the jobs in Crescent Valley pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crescent Valley, 2013 → 2023: 67 → 41. 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 Crescent Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes to work from Crescent Valley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crescent Valley workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 260 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 distance from Crescent Valley to work
About 72% 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 Crescent Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Crescent Valley?
$75,500 (±$53,767) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crescent Valley?
10.3%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crescent Valley?
17 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crescent Valley work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eureka (19%, 71 mi), Elko (8%, 51 mi), Reno (6%, 184 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crescent Valley without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crescent Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crescent Valley
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.