Ruhenstroth has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Ruhenstroth report 70 jobs for 446 working residents. For jobs and income Ruhenstroth is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (D−). Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Ruhenstroth
Why Ruhenstroth gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds Ruhenstroth’s grade up ($105,281, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Ruhenstroth’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, Ruhenstroth could be anywhere from D to B+.
Ruhenstroth by day and by night
On a workday 442 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Ruhenstroth on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
19% of working residents work in Minden
Where Ruhenstroth clocks in
19% of workers
13% of workers
12% 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 57% of work in Ruhenstroth
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ruhenstroth, 2013 → 2023: 117 → 70. 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 Ruhenstroth’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Ruhenstroth: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ruhenstroth workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 676 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.
The commute from Ruhenstroth, by distance
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 Ruhenstroth, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 720 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.3% of Ruhenstroth households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ruhenstroth’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ruhenstroth ranks: 3,138th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,102 | Osino NV | 1,341 | $93K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,326 | East Valley NV | 1,283 | $125K | 4.9% | 3.7% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,327 | Kingsbury NV | 2,209 | $96K | 1.1% | 4.5% | 16% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,136 | Owen Township IN | 1,630 | $75K | 8.0% | 1.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,137 | Larrabee WI | 1,251 | $81K | 14.4% | 2.3% | 1% | C |
| 3,138 | Ruhenstroth NV | 1,682 | $105K | 14.1% | 0.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,139 | Whitehorn Cove OK | 1,223 | $68K | 7.0% | 1.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,140 | Bridgman MI | 2,040 | $67K | 14.5% | 2.4% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Ruhenstroth, 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 Ruhenstroth: questions
What is the median household income in Ruhenstroth?
$105,281 (±$20,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ruhenstroth?
14.1%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ruhenstroth?
24 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ruhenstroth work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Minden (19%, 7 mi), Reno (13%, 46 mi), Carson City (12%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ruhenstroth walkable?
Ruhenstroth is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ruhenstroth without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ruhenstroth, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ruhenstroth
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.