Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0Double Spring has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
28 jobs are based in Double Spring, and 70 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Double Spring; the top destination outside it is Reno (14%, 55 miles). Home is the office for 50% of workers; Nevada has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Double Spring by day
On a workday 69 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 27 people come in from elsewhere.
About 220 people are in Double Spring 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.
Out of Double Spring to work: where people go
Where Double Spring clocks in
14% of workers
13% of workers
10% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Double Spring
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Double Spring, 2013 → 2023: 35 → 28. 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 Double Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Double Spring: about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Double Spring workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 39 commuters (the 50% 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.
Miles to work from Double Spring
About 24% 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 Double Spring: questions
What is the median household income in Double Spring?
$135,938 (±$49,017) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Double Spring?
0.8%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Double Spring?
42 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 50% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Double Spring work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (14%, 55 mi), Minden (13%, 15 mi), Carson City (10%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Double Spring 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 Double Spring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Double Spring
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.