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Work & commute in La Luz, NM

Most working residents leave La Luz for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Alamogordo (35%), Las Cruces (8%) and Albuquerque (7%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
4%
18 of 501 working residents
Typical commute
12 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
14 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
8%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 483 La Luz residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Luz.

483live here, work elsewhere
18live and work here
192work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where La Luz goes to work

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1
Alamogordo6.2 mi away
35%177
2
Las Cruces66.6 mi away
8%40
3
Albuquerque152.8 mi away
7%33
4
La Luz (in town)right here
4%18
5
El Paso, TX82.8 mi away
3%17
6
Ruidoso30.5 mi away
2%11
7
Roswell86.2 mi away
2%9
8
Carlsbad106.4 mi away
2%8
9
Holloman AFB12.6 mi away
2%8
10
Hobbs162.1 mi away
1%7
Everywhere elseother towns and states
35%173

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

How far

How far La Luz commutes

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

49%Under 10 mi
3%10–24 mi
4%25–50 mi
44%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

La Luz is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Luz are

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

Jobs based in La Luz

210 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)80%
Trade, transport & utilities17%
Services (health, schools, offices…)3%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month40%
Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs La Luz residents hold

501 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities22%
Services (health, schools, offices…)61%
$1,250 a month or less21%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%
Over $3,333 a month44%
−4%

Jobs based in La Luz, 2013 → 2023: 218 → 210. 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.

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