Work & commute · Sunlit Hills

Work & commute in Sunlit Hills, NM

Most working residents leave Sunlit Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Fe (45%), Albuquerque (15%) and Los Alamos (6%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 239 working residents

Typical commute

7 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 237 Sunlit Hills residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sunlit Hills.

237live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

77work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sunlit Hills goes to work

Santa Fe5.7 mi away

45%108

Albuquerque53.1 mi away

15%37

Los Alamos29.2 mi away

6%14

Conejo2.6 mi away

4%9

Kirtland AFB52.3 mi away

3%8

Española29.4 mi away

1%3

Seton Village0.8 mi away

1%3

Arroyo Hondo1.7 mi away

1%3

Estancia57.7 mi away

1%2

Las Vegas39.6 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

21%50

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

How far

How far Sunlit Hills commutes

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

58%

22%

18%

58%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sunlit Hills is a commuter town

0.33jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sunlit Hills are

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

Jobs based in Sunlit Hills

79 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Sunlit Hills residents hold

239 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+41%

Jobs based in Sunlit Hills, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 79. 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.