Photo: AllenS · Public domainWith 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Boles Acres works elsewhere
There are 32 jobs in Boles Acres for 490 working residents. Jobs and income earn Boles Acres D; getting around on foot earns it D−. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Boles Acres, in a few figures
Boles Acres and Alamogordo trade workers both ways
Alamogordo is the top workplace for Boles Acres residents (40%) and also where the most people who work in Boles Acres come from (44% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Boles Acres is a place people come home to
There are 32 jobs based in Boles Acres, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Boles Acres has about 1,400 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Boles Acres than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Boles Acres fell from 353 in 2013 to 32 in 2023, −91%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 490 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Boles Acres’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Boles Acres is better than 7% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Boles Acres’ grade.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Boles Acres’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, Boles Acres could be anywhere from D− to B−.
40% of working residents work in Alamogordo
Where Boles Acres clocks in
40% of workers
9% 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.
Who leaves Boles Acres for work, and who comes in
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Boles Acres on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer 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.
Goods jobs make up 50% of work in Boles Acres
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boles Acres, 2013 → 2023: 353 → 32. 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 Boles Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Boles Acres
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boles Acres workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 6% 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.
Boles Acres’ commute, mile by mile
About 45% 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.
Boles Acres is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boles Acres is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Boles Acres near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 550 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). 1.3% of Boles Acres households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boles Acres’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Boles Acres is 4,995th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 688 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 874 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,039 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,993 | Port Austin Township MI | 1,347 | $54K | 14.3% | 1.3% | 12% | D |
| 4,994 | Shell Knob MO | 1,486 | $55K | 14.7% | 8.4% | 5% | D |
| 4,995 | Boles Acres NM | 1,848 | $53K | 16.2% | 1.8% | <1% | D |
| 4,996 | Siesta Acres TX | 1,573 | $35K | 20.7% | 12.1% | <1% | D |
| 4,997 | Gassville AR | 2,205 | $39K | 17.8% | 8.4% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Boles Acres, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
40% of Boles Acres works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boles Acres workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boles Acres | – | D | D− | 25 min | $52,788 |
| Alamogordo | 40% | D | B− | 18 min | $55,952 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Alamogordo. Darker towns draw more of Boles Acres’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Boles Acres: questions
What is the median household income in Boles Acres?
$52,788 (±$20,065) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boles Acres?
16.2%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boles Acres?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boles Acres work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alamogordo (40%, 4 mi), Las Cruces (9%, 58 mi), Albuquerque (5%, 162 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boles Acres walkable?
Boles Acres is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boles Acres without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boles Acres, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boles Acres
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.