Work & commute · Elephant Butte

Work & commute in Elephant Butte, NM

Most working residents leave Elephant Butte for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Truth or Consequences (26%), Las Cruces (11%) and Albuquerque (9%). Half commute less than 66 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 299 working residents

Typical commute

66 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

12 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 278 Elephant Butte residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 319 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Elephant Butte.

278live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

319work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Elephant Butte goes to work

Truth or Consequences5 mi away

26%77

Las Cruces64.2 mi away

11%34

Albuquerque136.8 mi away

9%26

El Paso, TX103.1 mi away

8%24

Elephant Butte (in town)right here

7%21

Deming70.6 mi away

3%8

Silver City66.8 mi away

2%7

Caballo14.8 mi away

2%6

Socorro62.9 mi away

1%4

Los Lunas114.5 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%88

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Elephant Butte commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

37%

59%

37%Under 10 mi

3%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

59%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Elephant Butte is balanced between jobs and homes

1.14jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Elephant Butte are

340 jobs are based in Elephant Butte. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Elephant Butte’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Elephant Butte

340 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Elephant Butte residents hold

299 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+38%

Jobs based in Elephant Butte, 2013 → 2023: 246 → 340. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.