Work & commute · Radium Springs

Work & commute in Radium Springs, NM

Most working residents leave Radium Springs for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Las Cruces (47%), Albuquerque (7%) and El Paso (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19 of 482 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 463 Radium Springs residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 553 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Radium Springs.

463live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

553work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Radium Springs goes to work

Las Cruces12.4 mi away

47%228

Albuquerque182.1 mi away

7%32

El Paso, TX51.6 mi away

6%31

University Park16.7 mi away

5%23

Radium Springs (in town)right here

4%19

Hatch20.2 mi away

2%10

Alamogordo61.4 mi away

1%6

Doña Ana7.7 mi away

1%6

Deming51.7 mi away

1%5

Carlsbad155.3 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%117

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

How far

How far Radium Springs commutes

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

61%

27%

9%Under 10 mi

61%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Radium Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Radium Springs are

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

Jobs based in Radium Springs

572 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)92%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)5%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Radium Springs residents hold

482 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+57%

Jobs based in Radium Springs, 2013 → 2023: 364 → 572. 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.