Photo: Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0Mina has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Mina has 16 jobs, against 46 working residents. Hardly any work in Mina itself; outside it, Reno draws the most (17%, 123 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where Nevada as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Mina
On a workday 46 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 77 people are in Mina on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 Mina to work: where people go
Where Mina clocks in
17% of workers
11% of workers
11% 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.
Goods jobs make up 94% of work in Mina
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Mina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mina
of Mina workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 48 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.
The distance from Mina to work
About 87% 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 Mina: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mina?
65.4%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mina work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (17%, 123 mi), Sparks (11%, 119 mi), Hawthorne (11%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mina 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 Mina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mina
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.