Mogul’s household incomes are higher than in 94% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 2.3% of residents, next to 12.4% for Nevada as a whole. Mogul grades A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Hardly any work in Mogul itself; outside it, Reno draws the most (63%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mogul apart on work
Mogul and Reno trade workers both ways
Reno is the top workplace for Mogul residents (63%) and also where the most people who work in Mogul come from (68% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Mogul is a place people come home to
There are 44 jobs based in Mogul, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mogul has about 600 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Mogul residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
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 490 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mogul
On income, poverty and job access, Mogul is better than 97% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Mogul’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, Mogul could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Out of Mogul to work: where people go
Where Mogul clocks in
63% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
In and out of Mogul on a workday
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Mogul on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.09 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Mogul
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 the 44 jobs in Mogul are
44 jobs are based in Mogul.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mogul, 2013 → 2023: 35 → 44. 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 Mogul’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Mogul: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mogul workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 473 commuters (the 18% 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.
Most trips from Mogul start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mogul is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Mogul near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 577 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 4% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.7% of Mogul households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mogul’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mogul next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 52nd 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Tiki Island TX | 1,119 | $129K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 51 | Reed Township ND | 1,151 | $131K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| 52 | Mogul NV | 1,050 | $145K | 2.3% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 53 | Ogden Dunes IN | 1,163 | $117K | 3.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 54 | University Heights IA | 1,177 | $111K | 14.5% | 1.1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 584 | East Valley NV | 1,283 | $125K | 4.9% | 3.7% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Mogul, the top three, the last and three more from Nevada.
Mogul and its neighbors: 64% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Reno. Darker towns draw more of Mogul’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Mogul: questions
What is the median household income in Mogul?
$145,250 (±$59,794) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mogul?
2.3%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mogul?
20 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mogul work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (63%, 4 mi), Sparks (7%, 12 mi), Truckee (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mogul walkable?
Mogul is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mogul without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mogul, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mogul
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.