Work & commute · High Rolls

Work & commute in High Rolls, NM

Most working residents leave High Rolls for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Alamogordo (15%), Cloudcroft (9%) and El Paso (9%). Half commute less than 72 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12 of 233 working residents

Typical commute

72 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 221 High Rolls residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 100 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in High Rolls.

221live here, work elsewhere

12live and work here

100work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where High Rolls goes to work

Alamogordo10 mi away

15%36

Cloudcroft4.3 mi away

9%21

El Paso, TX83.5 mi away

9%21

Las Cruces71.1 mi away

6%15

Albuquerque157.6 mi away

6%14

High Rolls (in town)right here

5%12

Chaparral70.8 mi away

4%9

Artesia80.2 mi away

3%8

Santa Fe188.8 mi away

2%5

Hobbs154 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%88

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

How far

How far High Rolls commutes

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

33%

58%

33%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

58%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

High Rolls is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.48 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in High Rolls are

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

Jobs based in High Rolls

112 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs High Rolls residents hold

233 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−3%

Jobs based in High Rolls, 2013 → 2023: 115 → 112. 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.