Photo: Chris English · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Panaca works elsewhere
Panaca has 76 jobs, and 228 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Panaca C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Only 5% work in Panaca itself; outside it, Pioche draws the most (41%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Panaca stands out on work
41% of Panaca works in Pioche
94 working residents, 41%, have their main job in Pioche, 12 miles away. That’s 8 times as many as work in Panaca itself. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Panaca are quick
The average trip to work takes 7 minutes, against 25 across Nevada. That’s about 138 hours a year less on the road than the typical Nevada worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. 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 228 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Panaca’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Panaca’s grade up (1.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Panaca’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, Panaca could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Commuting out of Panaca: the destinations
Where Panaca clocks in
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.
The trip to work from Panaca: about 7 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Panaca workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 353 commuters (the 6% 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.
How many miles Panaca commutes
About 35% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Panaca
On a workday 216 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 64 people come in from elsewhere.
About 860 people are in Panaca on a workday afternoon, 15% 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.
The kinds of work in Panaca
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Panaca, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 76. 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 Panaca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Panaca is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Panaca is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Panaca 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 376 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). 0.0% of Panaca households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Panaca’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Panaca is 1,325th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,323 | Madison Township OH | 1,386 | $71K | 9.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,324 | Aurora WI | 1,020 | $79K | 5.8% | 5.3% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,325 | Panaca NV | 1,015 | $64K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,326 | Onarga IL | 1,305 | $78K | 8.6% | 3.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 1,327 | Bethel Township PA | 1,068 | $59K | 6.8% | 10.7% | 2% | 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 Panaca, 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 Panaca: questions
What is the median household income in Panaca?
$64,083 (±$18,249) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Panaca?
1.4%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Panaca?
7 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Panaca work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pioche (41%, 12 mi), Caliente (7%, 11 mi), Las Vegas (6%, 118 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Panaca walkable?
Panaca is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Panaca 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 Panaca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Panaca
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.