Work & commute · Navajo Dam

Work & commute in Navajo Dam, NM

Most working residents leave Navajo Dam for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Farmington (29%), Bloomfield (9%) and Albuquerque (7%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

7 of 110 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 103 Navajo Dam residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Navajo Dam.

103live here, work elsewhere

7live and work here

148work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Navajo Dam goes to work

Farmington31.9 mi away

29%32

Bloomfield21.3 mi away

9%10

Albuquerque133.8 mi away

7%8

Lee Acres26.9 mi away

7%8

Navajo Dam (in town)right here

6%7

Durango, CO30.4 mi away

5%5

Aztec19.6 mi away

5%5

Spencerville24.4 mi away

4%4

Crownpoint84 mi away

3%3

Blanco11.2 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%26

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

How far

How far Navajo Dam commutes

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

30%

40%

22%

7%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

40%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Navajo Dam is balanced between jobs and homes

1.41jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Navajo Dam are

155 jobs are based in Navajo Dam. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Navajo Dam’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Navajo Dam

155 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)55%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Navajo Dam residents hold

110 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+1092%

Jobs based in Navajo Dam, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 155. 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.