Work & commute · Yah-ta-hey

Work & commute in Yah-ta-hey, NM

Most working residents leave Yah-ta-hey for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Gallup (39%), Albuquerque (13%) and St. Michaels (7%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 104 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

47 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 104 Yah-ta-hey residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Yah-ta-hey.

104live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

116work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Yah-ta-hey goes to work

Gallup8.4 mi away

39%41

Albuquerque126.2 mi away

13%13

St. Michaels, AZ17.2 mi away

7%7

Iyanbito18.8 mi away

7%7

Grants63.3 mi away

3%3

Farmington84.9 mi away

3%3

Scottsdale, AZ220.2 mi away

2%2

Church Rock13 mi away

2%2

South Valley126.5 mi away

2%2

Tempe, AZ236.4 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%23

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

How far

How far Yah-ta-hey commutes

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

41%

16%

43%

41%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Yah-ta-hey is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Yah-ta-hey are

116 jobs are based in Yah-ta-hey. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Yah-ta-hey’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Yah-ta-hey

116 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month54%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Yah-ta-hey residents hold

104 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month36%

−61%

Jobs based in Yah-ta-hey, 2013 → 2023: 295 → 116. 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.