Work & commute · La Huerta

Work & commute in La Huerta, NM

Most working residents leave La Huerta for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Carlsbad (60%), Albuquerque (6%) and Hobbs (4%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 586 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 575 La Huerta residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 215 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Huerta.

575live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

215work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Huerta goes to work

Carlsbad3.5 mi away

60%352

Albuquerque230.3 mi away

6%37

Hobbs64.8 mi away

4%24

Roswell66.3 mi away

3%15

Artesia30.2 mi away

2%12

La Huerta (in town)right here

2%11

Loving13.4 mi away

1%7

Clovis149.7 mi away

1%5

Lovington61.2 mi away

1%4

Las Cruces150 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

20%115

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

How far

How far La Huerta commutes

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

66%

25%

66%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Huerta is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Huerta are

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

Jobs based in La Huerta

226 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)55%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)25%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs La Huerta residents hold

586 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month73%

+59%

Jobs based in La Huerta, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 226. 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.