Photo: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA · CC BY 2.0Silver Peak has 3.0 jobs for every working resident: 122 people commute in to work
About one in seven work in Silver Peak; the top destination outside it is Reno (9%, 172 miles). 129 jobs are based in Silver Peak; 43 of its residents have a job. 0% of workers work from home, 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 daily flow of workers through Silver Peak
On a workday 36 residents head out to work and 7 work right here.
About 310 people are in Silver Peak on a workday afternoon, 39% more 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.
Where Silver Peak’s workforce comes from
Where Silver Peak clocks in
9% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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 98% of work in Silver Peak
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver Peak, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 129. 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 Silver Peak’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Silver Peak
of Silver Peak workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 146 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 Silver Peak to work
About 60% 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 Silver Peak: questions
What is the poverty rate in Silver Peak?
0.0%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Silver Peak work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (9%, 172 mi), Las Vegas (7%, 168 mi), Bishop (5%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Silver Peak 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 Silver Peak, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver Peak
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.