Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0More than half of Bosque Farms’ working residents commute to Albuquerque
Only 7% work in Bosque Farms itself; outside it, Albuquerque draws the most (51%, 18 miles). The two grades for Bosque Farms are C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. For 18% of workers, the job is at home, against 12% across New Mexico.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Bosque Farms: the gist
More than half of Bosque Farms works in Albuquerque
872 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Albuquerque, 18 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Bosque Farms itself. The commute map ↓
Bosque Farms makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Bosque Farms are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bosque Farms residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Bosque Farms workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across New Mexico. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Where Bosque Farms’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bosque Farms is better than 39% of U.S. towns, #20 of 72 in New Mexico. Job access by car holds Bosque Farms’ grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.0%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bosque Farms could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Where Bosque Farms’ working residents head each day
Where Bosque Farms clocks in
51% 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.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
In Bosque Farms, 38% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
722 jobs are based in Bosque Farms.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bosque Farms, 2013 → 2023: 551 → 722. 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 Bosque Farms’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Bosque Farms
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bosque Farms workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,637 commuters (the 18% 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.
Bosque Farms by day and by night
On a workday 1,587 residents head out to work, 114 work right here, and 608 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Bosque Farms on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.42 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.
How far it is to work from Bosque Farms
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.
Most of Bosque Farms commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bosque Farms is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns, #48 of 73 in New Mexico. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of 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 2,004 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 25% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.4% of Bosque Farms households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bosque Farms’ commuters take a bus or train.
Bosque Farms is 2,578th of 4,112 U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 428 | Sandia Heights NM | 3,160 | $144K | 4.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 754 | Placitas NM | 4,223 | $110K | 3.2% | 3.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,421 | El Cerro NM | 2,923 | $106K | 5.9% | 4.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,576 | Manitou Springs CO | 4,577 | $85K | 11.2% | 11.8% | 14% | C+ |
| 2,577 | Windom MN | 4,817 | $75K | 14.3% | 2.9% | 33% | C+ |
| 2,578 | Bosque Farms NM | 4,174 | $82K | 17.0% | 5.9% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,579 | Van TX | 2,993 | $69K | 8.7% | 5.5% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,580 | Gray GA | 3,567 | $73K | 7.4% | 7.0% | 13% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,112 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Bosque Farms, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
How Bosque Farms compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bosque Farms workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosque Farms | – | C+ | C+ | 29 min | $82,188 |
| Peralta | under 1% | B | C+ | 32 min | $73,131 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bosque Farms’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 Bosque Farms: questions
What is the median household income in Bosque Farms?
$82,188 (±$14,727) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bosque Farms?
17.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bosque Farms?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bosque Farms work?
7% work in town.
Is Bosque Farms walkable?
Bosque Farms is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bosque Farms without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bosque Farms, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bosque Farms
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.