Work & commute · Grants

Work & commute in Grants, NM

About one in 3 of Grants’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Milan (10%), Albuquerque (9%) and Gallup (7%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

39%

1,175 of 2,984 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,809 Grants residents head out of town to work, 1,175 work right here, and 1,803 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Grants.

1,809live here, work elsewhere

1,175live and work here

1,803work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Grants goes to work

Grants (in town)right here

39%1,175

Milan4.5 mi away

10%289

Albuquerque67.1 mi away

9%259

Gallup57.1 mi away

7%202

Skyline-Ganipa14.7 mi away

2%69

Farmington112.2 mi away

2%53

Acomita Lake13.6 mi away

2%50

Santa Fe110 mi away

2%48

Las Cruces204.4 mi away

1%30

Laguna25.4 mi away

1%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

26%781

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

How far

How far Grants commutes

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

53%

36%

53%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

36%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Grants is balanced between jobs and homes

1.00jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Grants are

2,978 jobs are based in Grants. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Grants’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Grants

2,978 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Grants residents hold

2,984 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

−32%

Jobs based in Grants, 2013 → 2023: 4,384 → 2,978. 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.