Work & commute · Tres Arroyos

Work & commute in Tres Arroyos, NM

Most working residents leave Tres Arroyos for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Fe (50%), Albuquerque (13%) and Los Alamos (12%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 760 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

25%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 746 Tres Arroyos residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tres Arroyos.

746live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

254work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tres Arroyos goes to work

Santa Fe3.5 mi away

50%379

Albuquerque52.4 mi away

13%99

Los Alamos20.4 mi away

12%94

La Cienega8.1 mi away

2%18

Tres Arroyos (in town)right here

2%14

Española22.5 mi away

1%11

Las Cruces235.6 mi away

1%10

Agua Fria1.9 mi away

1%5

Kirtland AFB52.6 mi away

1%5

Las Campanas2.7 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

16%121

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

How far

How far Tres Arroyos commutes

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

61%

15%

17%

61%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tres Arroyos is a commuter town

0.35jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tres Arroyos are

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

Jobs based in Tres Arroyos

268 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month49%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Tres Arroyos residents hold

760 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+39%

Jobs based in Tres Arroyos, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 268. 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.