Work & commute · Los Chaves

Work & commute in Los Chaves, NM

Most working residents leave Los Chaves for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Albuquerque (43%), Los Lunas (13%) and Belen (9%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

63 of 1,844 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,781 Los Chaves residents head out of town to work, 63 work right here, and 620 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Chaves.

1,781live here, work elsewhere

63live and work here

620work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Chaves goes to work

Albuquerque26.5 mi away

43%786

Los Lunas5 mi away

13%233

Belen3.5 mi away

9%169

South Valley19.5 mi away

4%68

Kirtland AFB24.5 mi away

4%65

Los Chaves (in town)right here

3%63

Santa Fe77.8 mi away

3%48

Rio Rancho38.3 mi away

2%28

Los Alamos84.5 mi away

1%22

Bernalillo41.7 mi away

1%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%346

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

How far

How far Los Chaves commutes

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

31%

19%

38%

12%

31%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Chaves is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Chaves are

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

Jobs based in Los Chaves

683 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities68%

Services (health, schools, offices…)9%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month52%

Over $3,333 a month32%

Jobs Los Chaves residents hold

1,844 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+118%

Jobs based in Los Chaves, 2013 → 2023: 313 → 683. 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.