Apache Creek has 1.4 jobs for every working resident: 21 people commute in to work
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Apache Creek fills up on a workday
On a workday 15 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 28 people are in Apache Creek on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Reserve
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Apache Creek clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
21 jobs are based in Apache Creek. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Apache Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Half of Apache Creek commutes less than 108 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 60% 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.
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 Apache Creek: questions
What is the poverty rate in Apache Creek?
0.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Apache Creek work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Reserve (13%, 13 mi), Pima (7%, 98 mi), Durango (7%, 239 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Apache Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Apache Creek
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.