Photo: Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0Sandy Valley has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 26% of workers (Nevada 12%). Employers in Sandy Valley report 59 jobs, and 593 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Sandy Valley is better than 46% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (D−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Sandy Valley apart
Sandy Valley’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Sandy Valley is Las Vegas, 34 miles away as the crow flies. 27% of working residents (158) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Sandy Valley is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Sandy Valley, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sandy Valley has about 1,200 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Sandy Valley
26% of Sandy Valley workers work from home, against 12% across Nevada. Time on the road ↓
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 593 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Sandy Valley’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Sandy Valley’s grade up (5.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($57,639, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (13.2%) is left out: Sandy Valley’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, Sandy Valley could be anywhere from C− to A.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sandy Valley
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.
How many people are in Sandy Valley by day
On a workday 570 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Sandy Valley on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Sandy Valley’s commute takes about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sandy Valley workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 406 commuters (the 26% 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.
27% of working residents work in Las Vegas
Where Sandy Valley clocks in
27% of workers
18% of workers
7% 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.
Sandy Valley makes things: 34% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sandy Valley, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 59. 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 Sandy Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Sandy Valley commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 547 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). 0.0% of Sandy Valley households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sandy Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sandy Valley places 2,554th of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,177 | Osino NV | 1,341 | $93K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,417 | East Valley NV | 1,283 | $125K | 4.9% | 3.7% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,418 | Kingsbury NV | 2,209 | $96K | 1.1% | 4.5% | 16% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,552 | Jackson Township OH | 2,382 | $80K | 8.6% | 4.9% | 14% | B− |
| 2,553 | Monroe Township OH | 2,242 | $82K | 8.3% | 5.6% | 1% | B− |
| 2,554 | Sandy Valley NV | 1,742 | $58K | 5.8% | 13.2% | 4% | B− |
| 2,555 | Woodworth OH | 1,824 | $60K | 11.8% | 0.0% | 5% | B− |
| 2,556 | Clay Township IN | 1,295 | $71K | 6.7% | 1.1% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Sandy Valley, 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 Sandy Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Sandy Valley?
$57,639 (±$53,217) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sandy Valley?
5.8%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sandy Valley?
33 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sandy Valley work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Las Vegas (27%, 34 mi), Paradise (18%, 32 mi), Henderson (7%, 36 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sandy Valley walkable?
Sandy Valley is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sandy Valley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sandy Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sandy Valley
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.