Photo: It'sOnlyMakeBelieve · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Arroyo Hondo
The poverty rate is 100.0% (New Mexico 17.8%). Only 2% work in Arroyo Hondo itself; outside it, Taos draws the most (31%, 11 miles). Arroyo Hondo has 67 jobs, against 97 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Arroyo Hondo quiets down on a workday
On a workday 95 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 65 people come in from elsewhere.
About 44 people are in Arroyo Hondo on a workday afternoon, 41% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Arroyo Hondo commutes to
Where Arroyo Hondo clocks in
31% of workers
6% 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.
52% of the jobs in Arroyo Hondo make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arroyo Hondo, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 67. 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 Arroyo Hondo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Arroyo Hondo
About 28% 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.
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 Arroyo Hondo: questions
What is the poverty rate in Arroyo Hondo?
100.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Arroyo Hondo work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Taos (31%, 11 mi), Taos Ski Valley (12%, 13 mi), Red River (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arroyo Hondo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arroyo Hondo
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.