Internet in ZIP 89509: Reno by the numbers

89509 is a Reno ZIP where 18.1 percent of workers work from home, above Nevada's 11.9 percent. It has 16,788 households and a median age of 41.4, and 22.0 percent of residents are 65 or older.

What is different about Reno?

The ZIP covers Reno neighborhoods south of downtown. Median household income is about $86,000, and 7.0 percent of households have no internet at home, above Nevada's 5.3 percent.

The median home dates to 1975. The wired share is 78.9 percent, about the same as Washoe County's 78.6 percent. ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 has no business count on file for 89509, so we do not print one.

How do homes in ZIP 89509 get online?

Ask who has a cable, fiber or DSL type subscription and 78.9 percent of 89509 households say they do. That is about the same as Washoe County's 78.6 percent, and above Nevada's 76.6 percent. In 89509 a home outside that share may sit on a street the wire does not reach, or may have chosen something else; the Census records the result, not the reason.

Two groups matter most in 89509 when a wire is missing. Satellite households are 5.2 percent of the ZIP, below Nevada's 7.6 percent. Homes that get online only through a phone plan are 7.9 percent, below Nevada's 11.8 percent. Both 89509 numbers come from the same Census table, B28002.

Homes the Census lists as having no internet access make up 7.0 percent of 89509, above Washoe County's 5.6 percent and above Nevada's 5.3 percent. That is 1,177 households. Another 4.1 percent have no computer, above Nevada's 3.2 percent, a reminder that for some 89509 households a phone call works better than a web form.

Who lives and works in ZIP 89509?

89509 has 16,788 households and a median age of 41.4. Median household income is about $86,000 and the median home was built in 1975. Of workers, 18.1 percent work from home (above Nevada's 11.9 percent) and the mean commute is 18.5 minutes.

ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 (U.S. Census Bureau) has no business count on file for 89509, so none is printed here. A 89509 home office works like any home: what matters is the up to 200 Mbps upload that all three High Desert plans publish.

What do these numbers leave out?

Read the 89509 table as a picture of the area, not of your house. The area the Census draws for 89509 covers more ground than most people mean by a neighborhood, estimates have margins of error that grow as the area shrinks, and fixed wireless has no line of its own in the survey.

How does High Desert check an address in ZIP 89509?

High Desert Internet, locally owned and in business since August 2002, sends microwave radio from towers to a small antenna on the home, and in 89509 that path is checked house by house. Whether it reaches your 89509 home depends on the path, so start with the address check; the plan cards are below.

What do house age and home offices look like in ZIP 89509?

Census figures for ZIP 89509 put the median household income at about $86,000 (Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024 5-year, tables B19013, B25034, B08301, B28004 and B28005, pulled October 16, 2026). Homes built in 2010 or later are 4.8 percent of the housing here, and homes from before 1990 are 77.2 percent (Nevada: 15.3 percent newer, 36 percent older). With that much older housing in ZIP 89509, where the router sits and how the rooms are laid out often decides the Wi-Fi more than the service does. Working from home: 18.1 percent of workers in ZIP 89509, 11.9 percent for Nevada, the households that notice upload speed first. Income still shapes who subscribes: 74.7 percent of households under $35,000 a year report broadband, and 94.9 percent of those at $75,000 or more (table B28004). For residents 65 and older, 86.5 percent live with a broadband subscription at home (table B28005; Nevada 88.1 percent).