Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Winnemucca (5.7%) is higher than in 71% of U.S. towns
A typical one-way commute from Winnemucca lasts 23 minutes (Nevada 25, U.S. 26). For jobs and income Winnemucca is better than 24% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). About two in five work in Winnemucca itself; outside it, Reno draws the most (6%, 149 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Winnemucca: the gist
The figures behind Winnemucca’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Winnemucca’s grade up ($81,824, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winnemucca could be anywhere from D to B−.
Miles to work from Winnemucca
About 38% 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 leaves Winnemucca for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,192 residents head out to work, 1,564 work right here, and 2,707 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Winnemucca to work: where people go
Where Winnemucca clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
The kinds of work in Winnemucca
4,271 jobs are based in Winnemucca.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winnemucca, 2013 → 2023: 4,719 → 4,271. 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 Winnemucca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Winnemucca’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winnemucca workers work from home, vs 12% across Nevada. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,390 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.
In Winnemucca, walking beats the bus
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.6% across Nevada, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,620 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). 3.7% of Winnemucca households have no vehicle (Nevada 7.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 9% of Winnemucca’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Winnemucca is 2,489th of 3,012 U.S. towns of 5,800 to 11,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 612 | Johnson Lane NV | 6,467 | $121K | 3.3% | 0.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,356 | Incline Village NV | 9,272 | $167K | 6.0% | 3.9% | 41% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,805 | Moapa Valley NV | 6,684 | $89K | 5.8% | 4.1% | 13% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,487 | Delaware Township PA | 7,834 | $86K | 11.1% | 7.5% | 6% | C− |
| 2,488 | Mendota IL | 6,894 | $52K | 14.1% | 4.8% | 25% | C− |
| 2,489 | Winnemucca NV | 8,307 | $82K | 14.0% | 5.7% | 42% | C− |
| 2,490 | Paris TN | 10,468 | $41K | 26.3% | 2.2% | 36% | C− |
| 2,491 | Canteen Township IL | 7,714 | $50K | 27.1% | 7.1% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,012 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Winnemucca, 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 Winnemucca: questions
What is the median household income in Winnemucca?
$81,824 (±$6,851) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,260 across Nevada and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winnemucca?
14.0%, against 12.4% across Nevada and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winnemucca?
23 minutes each way on average, against 25 across Nevada and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winnemucca work?
42% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reno (6%, 149 mi), Elko (4%, 103 mi), Battle Mountain (2%, 47 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winnemucca walkable?
Winnemucca is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winnemucca without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winnemucca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winnemucca
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.