Work & commute · Pecos

Work & commute in Pecos, NM

Most working residents leave Pecos for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Fe (36%), Albuquerque (14%) and Los Alamos (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 298 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

42 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 287 Pecos residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 69 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pecos.

287live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

69work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pecos goes to work

Santa Fe18.1 mi away

36%106

Albuquerque63.5 mi away

14%41

Los Alamos40.7 mi away

5%16

Pecos (in town)right here

4%11

Las Vegas26 mi away

2%6

Farmington161.6 mi away

2%5

Rio Rancho60.9 mi away

2%5

Española36.8 mi away

1%4

North Valley60 mi away

1%4

Durango, CO168.9 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%97

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

How far

How far Pecos commutes

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

42%

13%

37%

8%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pecos is a commuter town

0.27jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Pecos are

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

Jobs based in Pecos

80 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities43%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month50%

Over $3,333 a month26%

Jobs Pecos residents hold

298 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−73%

Jobs based in Pecos, 2013 → 2023: 295 → 80. 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.