Work & commute · Fairacres

Work & commute in Fairacres, NM

Most working residents leave Fairacres for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Las Cruces (57%), El Paso (8%) and Albuquerque (3%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 291 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 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 284 Fairacres residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fairacres.

284live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

449work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fairacres goes to work

Las Cruces3.1 mi away

57%166

El Paso, TX39.5 mi away

8%24

Albuquerque193.8 mi away

3%8

University Park5.6 mi away

3%8

Fairacres (in town)right here

2%7

Mesilla2.9 mi away

1%4

Alamogordo64.7 mi away

1%4

Sunland Park36 mi away

1%3

Roswell152.9 mi away

1%3

Lubbock, TX299.7 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

21%61

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

How far

How far Fairacres commutes

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

69%

11%

15%

69%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fairacres is a job hub

1.57jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Fairacres are

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

Jobs based in Fairacres

456 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities49%

Services (health, schools, offices…)30%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Fairacres residents hold

291 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month45%

+45%

Jobs based in Fairacres, 2013 → 2023: 314 → 456. 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.