Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Jackpot has 2.2 jobs per working resident, and 431 people come in to work
Getting around Jackpot on foot earns B. 548 jobs are based in Jackpot; 248 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers have no commute at all, next to 12% for Nevada as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Jackpot: the gist
Jackpot’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Jackpot is Elko, 97 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (25) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Jackpot is where the jobs are
Jackpot has 548 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Jackpot are quick
The average trip to work takes 8 minutes, against 25 across Nevada. That’s about 130 hours a year less on the road than the typical Nevada worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 248 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where in the region Jackpot works
About 44% 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.
How many people are in Jackpot by day
On a workday 131 residents head out to work and 117 work right here.
About 1,700 people are in Jackpot on a workday afternoon, 21% more 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.
About 8 minutes each way for Jackpot’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jackpot workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 655 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.
Who travels to work in Jackpot, and from where
Where Jackpot clocks in
10% of workers
4% 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.
Most jobs in Jackpot are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jackpot, 2013 → 2023: 871 → 548. 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 Jackpot’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Jackpot: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jackpot is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 38.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 655 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). 2.4% of Jackpot households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Jackpot’s commuters take a bus or train.
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 Jackpot: questions
What is the poverty rate in Jackpot?
3.0%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jackpot?
8 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jackpot work?
47% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elko (10%, 97 mi), Owyhee (6%, 80 mi), Twin Falls (4%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jackpot walkable?
Jackpot is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 38% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jackpot without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jackpot, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jackpot
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.