Work & commute · Los Lunas

Work & commute in Los Lunas, NM

Most working residents leave Los Lunas for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Albuquerque (47%), Kirtland AFB (4%) and Santa Fe (3%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

1,303 of 7,465 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 6,162 Los Lunas residents head out of town to work, 1,303 work right here, and 6,274 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Los Lunas.

6,162live here, work elsewhere

1,303live and work here

6,274work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Los Lunas goes to work

Albuquerque22.5 mi away

47%3,536

Los Lunas (in town)right here

17%1,303

Kirtland AFB21.5 mi away

4%304

Santa Fe75 mi away

3%235

Belen2.6 mi away

3%196

South Valley15.6 mi away

2%178

Rio Rancho33.8 mi away

2%153

North Valley27.5 mi away

2%119

Bosque Farms6.4 mi away

1%60

Los Chaves5 mi away

1%50

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%1,331

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

How far

How far Los Lunas commutes

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

25%

49%

15%

11%

25%Under 10 mi

49%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Los Lunas is balanced between jobs and homes

1.02jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.02 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Los Lunas are

7,577 jobs are based in Los Lunas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Los Lunas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Los Lunas

7,577 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities36%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Los Lunas residents hold

7,465 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+53%

Jobs based in Los Lunas, 2013 → 2023: 4,939 → 7,577. 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.