Topaz Ranch Estates has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
45 jobs are based in Topaz Ranch Estates, against 500 working residents. Jobs and income earn Topaz Ranch Estates D; getting around on foot earns it C. Measured by household income, Topaz Ranch Estates is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Topaz Ranch Estates in brief
Topaz Ranch Estates’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Topaz Ranch Estates is Reno, 59 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (71) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Topaz Ranch Estates is a place people come home to
There are 45 jobs based in Topaz Ranch Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Topaz Ranch Estates has about 1,200 people in it, 28% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Topaz Ranch Estates workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 25 across Nevada. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 500 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Topaz Ranch Estates: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Topaz Ranch Estates is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Topaz Ranch Estates’ grade up (12.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Topaz Ranch Estates’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, Topaz Ranch Estates could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How many miles Topaz Ranch Estates commutes
About 34% 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.
Who works in Topaz Ranch Estates, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 474 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Topaz Ranch Estates on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
From Topaz Ranch Estates, about 41 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Topaz Ranch Estates workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 545 commuters (the 8% 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.
14% of working residents work in Reno
Where Topaz Ranch Estates clocks in
14% of workers
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Topaz Ranch Estates
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Topaz Ranch Estates, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 45. 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 Topaz Ranch Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Topaz Ranch Estates, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Topaz Ranch Estates is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 593 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). 3.8% of Topaz Ranch Estates households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Topaz Ranch Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Topaz Ranch Estates next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200: 5,119th of 6,161 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,132 | Osino NV | 1,341 | $93K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,364 | East Valley NV | 1,283 | $125K | 4.9% | 3.7% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,369 | Golden Valley NV | 1,139 | $93K | 10.2% | 12.5% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,117 | Albion ME | 2,092 | $62K | 18.4% | 2.8% | 8% | D |
| 5,118 | Chase Township MI | 1,256 | $62K | 17.7% | 9.1% | 1% | D |
| 5,119 | Topaz Ranch Estates NV | 1,621 | $58K | 12.7% | 6.0% | 5% | D |
| 5,120 | Marmaduke AR | 1,254 | $51K | 23.7% | 0.9% | 8% | D |
| 5,121 | Gordon NE | 1,417 | $59K | 14.1% | 2.4% | 40% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Topaz Ranch Estates, 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 Topaz Ranch Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Topaz Ranch Estates?
$57,574 (±$5,995) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Topaz Ranch Estates?
12.7%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Topaz Ranch Estates?
41 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Topaz Ranch Estates work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (14%, 59 mi), Carson City (8%, 32 mi), Topaz Lake (7%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Topaz Ranch Estates walkable?
Topaz Ranch Estates is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Topaz Ranch Estates 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 Topaz Ranch Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Topaz Ranch Estates
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.