Snake Valley Census Data

I regularly get asked how many people live in Baker. I usually say about 150-200, but I realized that we actually have the data to be more accurate. From the 2010 Census Data, here are the populations in Snake Valley (click on the number to get to the actual census data):

* zip code 89311 (Baker): 235
* Baker CDP (which I think means just the main town and not south Baker, Groovy View Estates, or other outlying ranches and homes given the number of people they counted by age category): 68
* zipcode 84728 (Garrison, EskDale, and Gandy): 158

Unfortunately it's harder to get the data for north Snake Valley. When I tried Partoun, Trout Creek, and Callao, I got a return with something out of state. When I used zipcode 84083, the result is 1516, but this includes West Wendover. Maybe someone else knows how to find that data.

It's fun to look a little more into the data:

For zip code 89311, the median age is 47.9, and 79.3% of the population has attained high school education or greater. The number of veterans who live here is 26, 0% of the population lives below the poverty level, and 0% born in another country. Of course, all this data should be taken with a grain of salt, as it says we have 0% Latinos in the community, and we know that certainly isn't true.

For zip code 84728, the median age is 36.0 (wow, such young'uns just on the other side of the state line!), with 62.0% holding a high school diploma, 0 veterans, and 26 foreign born.

For both zip codes, no children had been born within the last 12 months, according to the data (although a look around the community shows that 2009 and 2010 produced a good crop of kids).

I spent some time trying to find older census data, but got frustrated with being led in circles around the Internet. If you know how to compare how these areas have changed populations over the years, please leave a comment. I did find lots of numbers from other web sites about the populations that didn't match what the census data said. One site said that Baker's population was 154, and it probably got that number from another site that ranked Baker as the 154th largest town in the state of Nevada with a population of 235.

Well, there might not be many of us out here (I think the population density for the 89311 area code is 0.1 people per square mile), but we are still here!