Nevada Northern Railway-McGill Depot · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 4.0McGill has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 557 people commute in to work
McGill grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 568 jobs are based in McGill for 316 working residents. 0% of workers work from home, against 12% across Nevada.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in McGill, in a few figures
McGill makes and builds things
97% of the jobs based in McGill are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs McGill residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in McGill pay better than its residents’ jobs
93% of the jobs based in McGill pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 53% of the jobs McGill residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside McGill. The jobs ↓
McGill is where the jobs are
McGill has 568 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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 316 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in McGill
On income, poverty and job access, McGill is better than 27% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds McGill’s grade up (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: McGill’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, McGill could be anywhere from D to B−.
McGill makes things: 97% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in McGill, 2013 → 2023: 489 → 568. 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 McGill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in McGill, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 305 residents head out to work and 11 work right here.
About 1,300 people are in McGill on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Commuting in to McGill: where workers come from
Where McGill clocks in
37% of workers
3% 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.
Getting to work from McGill takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of McGill workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 462 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from McGill
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.
In McGill, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, McGill is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.6% across Nevada.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 462 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). 3.3% of McGill households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of McGill’s commuters take a bus or train.
McGill next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 1,847th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Mogul NV | 1,050 | $145K | 2.3% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 290 | Verdi NV | 1,012 | $81K | 3.0% | 6.4% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 473 | Osino NV | 1,341 | $93K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,845 | Green Lake WI | 1,040 | $56K | 11.6% | 4.0% | 13% | C |
| 1,846 | Bath NH | 1,112 | $68K | 8.1% | 3.9% | 4% | C |
| 1,847 | McGill NV | 1,050 | $57K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 3% | C |
| 1,848 | Bellevue MI | 1,348 | $64K | 16.1% | 4.9% | 4% | C |
| 1,849 | Paris MO | 1,178 | $63K | 8.0% | 3.8% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 McGill, 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 McGill: questions
What is the median household income in McGill?
$56,779 (±$19,201) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in McGill?
5.0%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from McGill?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in McGill work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ely (37%, 11 mi), Elko (3%, 112 mi), Reno (2%, 271 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is McGill walkable?
McGill is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around McGill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from McGill, from the people who make the trip.
More of McGill
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.