Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0Elko draws about half of Spring Creek’s working residents
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Spring Creek are B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 6% work in Spring Creek itself; outside it, Elko draws the most (47%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Spring Creek in brief
Spring Creek workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 43 minutes each way, against 25 across Nevada. Over a year that’s about 330 hours of commuting, 138 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly half of Spring Creek works in Elko
3,353 working residents, 47%, have their main job in Elko, 11 miles away. That’s 8 times as many as work in Spring Creek itself. The commute map ↓
Spring Creek is a place people come home to
There are 915 jobs based in Spring Creek, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Spring Creek has about 8,500 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Spring Creek
71% of Spring Creek residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 49% of the jobs based in Spring Creek pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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.
Where Spring Creek’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spring Creek is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #13 of 42 in Nevada. Household income holds Spring Creek’s grade up ($105,154, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Creek could be anywhere from C to B+.
About 43 minutes to work from Spring Creek
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Creek workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,230 commuters (the 9% 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.
Where Spring Creek goes to work
Where Spring Creek clocks in
47% of workers
2% 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 Spring Creek on a workday
On a workday 6,728 residents head out to work, 441 work right here, and 474 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,500 people are in Spring Creek on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.13 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.
Jobs in Spring Creek: what the 915 are
915 jobs are based in Spring Creek.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Creek, 2013 → 2023: 928 → 915. 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 Spring Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Spring Creek
About 25% 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.
For most of Spring Creek, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Creek is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #30 of 42 in Nevada. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 19.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,872 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). 0.3% of Spring Creek households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 19% of Spring Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Spring Creek places 1,439th of 2,362 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 524 | Spanish Springs NV | 17,980 | $128K | 2.9% | 2.8% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 868 | Cold Springs NV | 11,321 | $94K | 3.9% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,355 | Gardnerville Ranchos NV | 12,114 | $88K | 9.5% | 2.1% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,437 | Blanchard OK | 10,013 | $91K | 7.9% | 10.1% | 10% | B− |
| 1,438 | Union MO | 13,445 | $73K | 8.1% | 3.7% | 18% | B− |
| 1,439 | Spring Creek NV | 14,739 | $105K | 7.3% | 4.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,440 | Dover OH | 12,947 | $64K | 11.5% | 3.5% | 22% | B− |
| 1,441 | Columbia Township IN | 12,082 | $70K | 12.8% | 3.3% | 17% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Spring Creek, the top three, the last and three more from Nevada.
Work in the towns next to Spring Creek
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Creek workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Creek | – | B− | B | 43 min | $105,154 |
| Lamoille | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lamoille: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Spring Creek’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 Spring Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Creek?
$105,154 (±$13,063) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Creek?
7.3%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Creek?
43 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Creek work?
6% work in town.
Is Spring Creek walkable?
Spring Creek is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 19% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Creek without a car?
19% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Creek
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.