Washoe County is Lyon County's largest partner: about 772 people a year moved from Washoe to Lyon in 2016-2020 and about 985 moved back. Placer County, California is second on the inbound side at about 726, though its margin of error is 549.
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Lyon County takes in Fernley, Dayton, Silver Springs, Yerington and Stagecoach, running from 39 to 74 miles from the Sparks warehouse. The two tables above show the 15 counties that sent the most people to Lyon County and the 15 that received the most people leaving it, as yearly averages for 2016-2020.
| County | People per year (estimate) | Margin of error |
|---|---|---|
| Washoe County, Nevada | 772 | +/- 322 |
| Placer County, California | 726 | +/- 549 |
| Maricopa County, Arizona | 451 | +/- 507 |
| Carson City, Nevada | 432 | +/- 301 |
| Clark County, Nevada | 348 | +/- 255 |
| Douglas County, Nevada | 166 | +/- 137 |
| Butte County, California | 148 | +/- 185 |
| Otero County, New Mexico | 134 | +/- 142 |
| Mohave County, Arizona | 100 | +/- 96 |
| Riverside County, California | 84 | +/- 76 |
| Humboldt County, Nevada | 74 | +/- 54 |
| Elko County, Nevada | 70 | +/- 96 |
| Chelan County, Washington | 69 | +/- 84 |
| Stafford County, Virginia | 54 | +/- 99 |
| San Francisco County, California | 51 | +/- 63 |
| County | People per year (estimate) | Margin of error |
|---|---|---|
| Washoe County, Nevada | 985 | +/- 285 |
| Churchill County, Nevada | 533 | +/- 299 |
| Carson City, Nevada | 250 | +/- 125 |
| Douglas County, Nevada | 180 | +/- 143 |
| Cass County, Texas | 164 | +/- 204 |
| Contra Costa County, California | 157 | +/- 169 |
| Allen County, Indiana | 88 | +/- 125 |
| Clark County, Nevada | 82 | +/- 66 |
| Whatcom County, Washington | 81 | +/- 96 |
| Okanogan County, Washington | 72 | +/- 89 |
| Bexar County, Texas | 68 | +/- 73 |
| Nye County, Nevada | 63 | +/- 55 |
| San Bernardino County, California | 60 | +/- 53 |
| San Diego County, California | 51 | +/- 83 |
| Monterey County, California | 49 | +/- 69 |
The inbound number from Washoe is 772 (plus or minus 322) and the outbound number to Washoe is 985 (plus or minus 285). Lyon County loses a few more people to Washoe than it gains, but the two ranges overlap, so the honest summary is a two-way flow of roughly 800 to 1,000 people each direction every year. That is the largest exchange in the Lyon County file.
Carson City is a smaller partner (432 in, 250 out) and Churchill County is the main outbound destination after Washoe, at about 533 a year, with a margin of 299.
Placer County, California sends about 726 people a year, and Maricopa County, Arizona about 451, but the margins are 549 and 507. The Maricopa margin is actually larger than the estimate, so the correct reading is that some people moved from the Phoenix area, in an amount the survey cannot size. Otero County, New Mexico (134) and Butte County, California (148) are in the same position.
Clark County (Las Vegas) sends about 348 and takes about 82, the sharpest imbalance among the Nevada counties, though the inbound margin is 255.
Lyon is the fast-growing county in the group. The Census estimates are 51,999 people in 2015, 58,319 in 2020 and 65,088 in 2025, a rise of about 11.6 percent in the last five years. By comparison Washoe County rose about 6.8 percent over the same period. Net moves in from other U.S. counties were about 7,251 for 2020-2025, which is larger than the total population gain of 6,769; births, deaths and other moves therefore pulled the total slightly downward.
That growth shows in the housing. Fernley has 8,789 households, 28 percent of them renting, with a median year built of 2001 and a median home value of $366,700. Dayton has 5,842 households with 20.1 percent renting and a median home value of $433,200, and Silver Springs has 2,300 households and a median value of $244,400.
Free-flow drives from 2277 Glendale Ave in Sparks are: Fernley 39 miles and about 1 hour 3 minutes, Dayton 44 miles and about 1 hour 6 minutes, Silver Springs 44 miles and about 1 hour 7 minutes, and Yerington 74 miles and about 1 hour 59 minutes. Those are the miles and minutes an estimator starts from; the final plan depends on the load and the day.
Service pages cover Fernley, Dayton and the wider Fernley, Fallon and Lyon County area.
County flows hide the town-level picture. A person who left Fernley for Sparks and one who left Yerington for Reno both appear in the same Lyon-to-Washoe row. The numbers are survey estimates for people, not for moves, and they cover a period that ended in 2020.
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The two ranges overlap. About 772 people a year moved from Washoe to Lyon and about 985 moved from Lyon to Washoe, with margins of error of 322 and 285.
The estimate is 451 people a year but the margin of error is 507, so the survey cannot rule out a number near zero. Read it as 'some movement from the Phoenix area'.
From 58,319 in 2020 to 65,088 in 2025 by Census estimate, which is about 11.6 percent in five years.
Fernley, at about 39 miles and 1 hour 3 minutes by free-flow drive, mostly on I-80.
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