Photo: Davishan99 · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Angel Fire has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 610 people come in to work
Measured by household income, Angel Fire is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns. 710 jobs are based in Angel Fire, against 359 working residents. Angel Fire grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Angel Fire
Jobs in Angel Fire have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Angel Fire went from 311 in 2013 to 710 in 2023, +128%. The jobs ↓
Angel Fire is where the jobs are
Angel Fire has 710 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Angel Fire’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Angel Fire is Springer, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (35) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 359 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The four measures behind Angel Fire’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Angel Fire is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Angel Fire’s grade up ($107,554, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.2%) is left out: Angel Fire’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Angel Fire could be anywhere from D to B−.
What Angel Fire’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Angel Fire, 2013 → 2023: 311 → 710. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Angel Fire’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Angel Fire
On a workday 259 residents head out to work and 100 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Angel Fire on a workday afternoon, 30% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Near or far: the trip to work from Angel Fire
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Where the people who work in Angel Fire live
Where Angel Fire clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
About 24 minutes each way for Angel Fire’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Angel Fire workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 412 commuters (the 36% who work from home are left out). Across New Mexico: 84% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Angel Fire is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Angel Fire is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across New Mexico.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 641 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Angel Fire households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Angel Fire’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Angel Fire ranks 2,555th of 4,312 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 572 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 846 | Cuartelez NM | 1,512 | $114K | 5.6% | 20.8% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,553 | Boulder Junction WI | 1,075 | $75K | 9.7% | 2.2% | 7% | C |
| 2,554 | Strawberry AZ | 1,094 | $60K | 5.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 2,555 | Angel Fire NM | 1,170 | $108K | 18.0% | 1.2% | 28% | C |
| 2,556 | Old River-Winfree TX | 1,495 | $72K | 25.8% | 8.5% | 0% | C |
| 2,557 | Plainfield VT | 1,218 | $69K | 11.6% | 0.5% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Angel Fire, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Angel Fire: questions
What is the median household income in Angel Fire?
$107,554 (±$25,329) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Angel Fire?
18.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Angel Fire?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Angel Fire work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Springer (10%, 37 mi), Cimarron (7%, 21 mi), Raton (5%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Angel Fire walkable?
Angel Fire is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Angel Fire without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Angel Fire, from the people who make the trip.
More of Angel Fire
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.