Census-designated place · Douglas County, Nevada

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada

Topaz Ranch Estates is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Nevada, part of the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA metro area. It has 1,621 residents. Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada has a quality-of-life score of 44 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,832 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Nevada it ranks #15 of 67 cities and towns. It ranks best on voter turnout (high), preventable hospital stays (low) and hospital quality rating (high). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (high) and bachelor's degree or higher (low).

44Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,832 of 15,651 cities and towns
Nevada: #15 of 67 in NV
Population: 1,621 (2020-2024)
Land area: 14 mi²
Density: 112.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3274400

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety72#4,369/15,637
Economy52#7,489/15,631
Housing13#13,001/14,977
Health49#7,959/15,609
Healthcare38#9,686/15,650
Environment93#1,049/15,453
Education15#13,239/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,309/15,650
Community41#9,167/15,651
Leisure & amenities78#3,497/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Douglas County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Voter turnout · high86.4%
100/100Nevada 66.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionDouglas County value
Preventable hospital stays · low1,283 /100k
98/100Nevada 2,768 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDouglas County value
Hospital quality rating · high5.0
98/100Nevada 3.0United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDouglas County value
Job growth · high4.8%
98/100Nevada 2.0%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataDouglas County value
Median Air Quality Index · low22
97/100Nevada 572025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDouglas County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · high10.8 /10k
96/100Nevada 7.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDouglas County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.6 /10k
5/100Nevada 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDouglas County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high19.3%
8/100Nevada 13.7%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Bachelor's degree or higher · low11.5%
9/100Nevada 27.9%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Suicide rate · high24.2 /100k
10/100Nevada 20.5 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataDouglas County value
Rent as share of income · high42.7%
11/100Nevada 33.1%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Rent-burdened households · high57.6%
11/100Nevada 55.8%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateWorsening
9.3% (2015-2019) → 28.8% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
81.9% (2015-2019) → 89.7% (2020-2024)
+7.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
3.8× (2015-2019) → 5.0× (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateImproving
11.6% (2015-2019) → 6.0% (2020-2024)
−5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
14.1% (2015-2019) → 19.3% (2020-2024)
+5.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Median household incomeImproving
$48,875 (2015-2019) → $57,574 (2020-2024)
+18%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada improved on 2 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved2

Broadband+7.8 points81.9% → 89.7%
Household income+18%$48,875 → $57,574

Declined1

Price / income+1.2×3.8× → 5.0×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	41.8 min2015-2019	41.4 min2020-2024	−0.4 min	Within the margin of error	52%
Bachelor's degree or higher	10.7%2015-2019	11.5%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Broadband subscriptions	81.9%2015-2019	89.7%2020-2024	+7.8 points	Improved	48%
Effective property tax rate	0.58%2015-2019	0.42%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Little change	51%
High school diploma or higher	90.4%2015-2019	91.1%2020-2024	+0.6 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Home price to income ratio	3.8×2015-2019	5.0×2020-2024	+1.2×	Declined	16%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4162015-2019	0.3932020-2024	−0.024	Within the margin of error	70%
Median household income	$48,8752015-2019	$57,5742020-2024	+18%	Improved	29%
Poverty rate	13.7%2015-2019	12.7%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	53%
Rent as share of income	41.5%2015-2019	42.7%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Rent-burdened households	56.3%2015-2019	57.6%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Unemployment rate	11.6%2015-2019	6.0%2020-2024	−5.6 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	14.1%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	10%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada itself moved −0.5 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,621 residents (±167)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

737 households (±90)

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
Nevada share

Under $25k16%116
$25k–50k28%205
$50k–75k18%134

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

737 households (±90)

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
Nevada share

Own85%628
Rent15%†109

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

593 workers (±94)

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada
Nevada share

Drive alone76%449
Carpool11%†64
Public transit0.0%0

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Douglas County, the county holding most of Topaz Ranch Estates's residents.

Douglas County has 1,714 employer establishments, 347 for every 10,000 residents (1.40× the US rate of 248; 1.44× Nevada's), with 16,247 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,104. The Census Bureau also counts 5,617 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,714; 5,617 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 347; US 248 · Nevada 241
Paid employees: 16,247
Average annual pay: $52,104; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Douglas County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Specialty trade contractors	153	31	2.00×More than typical	1,006	$64,084	252
Lessors of real estate	133	26.9	2.19×More than typical	348	$72,503	933
Restaurants and other eating places	100	20.2	1.10×About typical	1,488	$24,634	7
Ambulatory health care services	86	17.4	0.84×About typical	616	$78,633	232
Management, scientific and technical consulting	72	14.6	2.17×More than typical	215	$110,367	328
Construction of buildings	69	14	1.85×More than typical	290	$65,179	170
Services to buildings and dwellings	62	12.5	1.86×More than typical	564	$35,699	229
Real estate agents and brokers	57	11.5	2.37×More than typical	82	$64,793	289
Building equipment contractors	55	11.1	1.85×More than typical	314	$64,134	54
Full-service restaurants	44	8.9	1.16×About typical	693	$27,094	4
Computer systems design and related services	43	8.7	2.01×More than typical	101	$127,089	87
Limited-service restaurants	40	8.1	1.01×About typical	624	$23,128	—

Rank places for an industry Open Douglas County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 49,407 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

39.3KFY2017
144.2KFY2021
-30.7KFY2022

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada, so they do not add up across cities.

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada's figures are part of those of Douglas County, NV ($17.3M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Topaz Ranch Estates is mostly in Douglas County.

See federal money in Douglas County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Topaz Ranch Estates, Nevada is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Mark E. AmodeiR-NV-2 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 2.8%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Douglas County81100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Gardnerville Ranchos, NV-CA89

Other cities and towns in Douglas County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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