Work & commute · Wagon Mound

Work & commute in Wagon Mound, NM

Most working residents leave Wagon Mound for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Albuquerque (19%), Santa Fe (10%) and Angel Fire (8%). Half commute less than 73 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 52 working residents

Typical commute

73 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 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 51 Wagon Mound residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 72 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wagon Mound.

51live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

72work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wagon Mound goes to work

Albuquerque125.4 mi away

19%10

Santa Fe75.1 mi away

10%5

Angel Fire40.1 mi away

8%4

Trinidad, CO81.6 mi away

6%3

Las Vegas39.7 mi away

6%3

Mora34.9 mi away

6%3

Cimarron36.5 mi away

4%2

Taos55.3 mi away

4%2

Denver, CO259.8 mi away

2%1

Dexter195.1 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%18

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

How far

How far Wagon Mound commutes

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

31%

59%

4%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

59%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wagon Mound is balanced between jobs and homes

1.40jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Wagon Mound are

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

Jobs based in Wagon Mound

73 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Wagon Mound residents hold

52 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−26%

Jobs based in Wagon Mound, 2013 → 2023: 98 → 73. 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.