Most of Fallon Station commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
At home: 3% of workers have no commute at all (Nevada 12%). Employers in Fallon Station report 12 jobs for 158 working residents. Fallon Station grades B− 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
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fallon Station
On income, poverty and job access, Fallon Station is better than 46% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fallon Station’s grade up (1.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Fallon Station’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fallon Station could be anywhere from C to B+.
In and out of Fallon Station on a workday
On a workday 158 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Fallon Station on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
18% of working residents work in Reno
Where Fallon Station clocks in
18% of workers
12% of workers
3% 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.
100% of the jobs in Fallon Station pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fallon Station, 2013 → 2023: 766 → 12. 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 Fallon Station’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 10 minutes in Fallon Station
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fallon Station workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 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.
Half of Fallon Station commutes less than 78 miles
About 81% 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.
In Fallon Station, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fallon Station is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 24.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 2.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 549 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). 3.5% of Fallon Station households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fallon Station’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Fallon Station is 2,270th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 113 | Mogul NV | 1,050 | $145K | 2.3% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 627 | Verdi NV | 1,012 | $81K | 3.0% | 6.4% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 996 | Osino NV | 1,341 | $93K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,268 | Silver Lake KS | 1,316 | $57K | 5.3% | 0.0% | 7% | B− |
| 2,269 | Vernon Township OH | 1,327 | $55K | 6.1% | 4.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,270 | Fallon Station NV | 1,399 | $67K | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0% | B− |
| 2,271 | Alto GA | 1,018 | $81K | 13.2% | 2.7% | 0% | B− |
| 2,272 | Sunray TX | 1,739 | $66K | 8.2% | 2.8% | 18% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Fallon Station, 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 Fallon Station: questions
What is the median household income in Fallon Station?
$67,301 (±$29,703) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fallon Station?
1.2%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fallon Station?
10 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fallon Station work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (18%, 61 mi), Fallon (12%, 5 mi), Elko (3%, 184 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fallon Station walkable?
Fallon Station is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 2.8 out of 20, and 25% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fallon Station without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fallon Station, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fallon Station
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.