Berlin Historic District · Photo: User Snowfalcon on en.wikipedia · Public domainGabbs has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
1 jobs are based in Gabbs for 50 working residents. Only 2% work in Gabbs itself; outside it, Tonopah draws the most (10%, 66 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Nevada as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Gabbs, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 49 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Gabbs on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Gabbs goes to work
Where Gabbs clocks in
10% of workers
2% 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.
A place that makes things: 100% of Gabbs’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gabbs, 2013 → 2023: 134 → 1. 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 Gabbs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Gabbs
of Gabbs workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 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.
Half of Gabbs commutes less than 43 miles
About 37% 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 Gabbs: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gabbs?
19.8%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Gabbs work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tonopah (10%, 66 mi), Ely (2%, 167 mi), Elko (2%, 178 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gabbs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gabbs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gabbs
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.