89433Sun Valley, Nevada

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 89433.

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How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 42% of 6,210 ZIP areas measured58
Schools4176th of 4,422 ZIP areas measured16
Housing affordability3610th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured77
Climate4538th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured64
Physical resilience5504th of 6,709 ZIP areas measured23
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stability4432nd of 6,742 ZIP areas measured51
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.0% and median household income $75,984, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by earthquake, wildfire and drought.

A major airport is 7 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
23,016
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$75,984
Top 43% nationally
Density
2,066/sq mi
11.1 sq mi of land
Median age
35.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Sun Valley
Nevada
Metro area
Reno, NV
Nearest major airport
RNO
7 mi · Reno/Tahoe Intl
Median home value
$349,100
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.0% is lower than 68% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.2% over the past year, to 257,688 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,983$75,984Top 43%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,404$26,902Bottom 17%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate17.0%Top 26%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute28.5 minTop 46%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher10.5%Bottom 13%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment257,688Top 19%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.1%Top 24%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.2%Top 33%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force268,458Top 19%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation61.8%Top 46%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$64,520Bottom 34%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$49,660Bottom 44%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.5%Bottom 18%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.0%Bottom 32%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202476k56k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $75,984 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Reno, NV
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand8,960$43,990
Stockers and Order Fillers8,230$38,020
General and Operations Managers7,930$106,050
Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators7,550$49,050
Retail Salespersons7,020$35,160
Fast Food and Counter Workers6,900$31,530

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Sun Valley, NV, the city containing this ZIP code.

14% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 22% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 17.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
5
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
17.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
13.9%
Bottom 16% in Nevada
Reading proficiency
21.5%
Bottom 4% in Nevada
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
DESERT SKIES MIDDLE SCHOOLWashoe County87519.011%25%
ESTHER BENNETT ELEMENTARYWashoe County52915.616%18%
SUN VALLEY ELEMENTARYWashoe County52017.312%17%
LOIS ALLEN ELEMENTARYWashoe County47817.711%21%
VIRGINIA PALMER ELEMENTARYWashoe County41915.522%24%

100.0% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Nevada’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 2% below the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $1,266 takes 20% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.6 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Cost of living
98.0

Prices here run about 2% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
20.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.6×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,266
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$349,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index98.0Bottom 41%of 6,0712023
Home price to income4.59Top 20%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate72.5%Bottom 34%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4807,469Top 21%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$131$1,266Top 32%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,394$349,100Top 26%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.0%Top 35%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.4%Bottom 14%of 33,0282024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 26°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 7.4 inches, including 20.9 inches of snow.

Air quality measures a median index of 50, in the Good band, and about 4 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station RENO TAHOE INTL AP, 7.9 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND1.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index77.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation7.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall20.9"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low26°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10042024 calendar year
Median air quality index50.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing41°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
50
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
77
90th percentile index
Days above 100
4
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

23 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, wildfire and drought.

EarthquakeHigh
WildfireHigh
LandslideModerate
DroughtModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, inland flooding, lightning, avalanche, ice storm, volcanic activity, strong wind, hail, heat wave, tornado, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Washoe County records 5.2 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 16.5 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 33.3 per 100,000 residents in Washoe County.

Homicide
5.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.5
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
33.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Washoe County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 89433 rather than 89433 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 7 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Reno/Tahoe IntlRNO7 mi11,001 ft
Reno/SteadRTS7 mi9,000 ft
Lake TahoeTVL50 mi8,541 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

89433 vs Sun Valley

How this ZIP area compares with Sun Valley as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

89433
Sun Valley
Median household income
$75,984
vs
$77,446
Per capita income
$26,902
vs
$27,382
Population density
2,066/sq mi
vs
1,525/sq mi
Median home value
$349,100
vs
$349,100
Median gross rent
$1,266
vs
$1,214
Homeownership rate
72.5%
vs
75.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
10.5%
vs
10.8%
Poverty rate
17.0%
vs
16.8%
Median age
35.5
vs
35.8

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.