Samuel Sanchez House · Photo: Tworiverflyfisher · CC BY-SA 3.0Brazos has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 5 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
0.40 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.
40% of working residents work in Chama
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Brazos clocks in
20% of workers
20% 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
2 jobs are based in Brazos. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brazos’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 Brazos commutes less than 27 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 40% 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 Brazos: questions
Where do people who live in Brazos work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chama (40%, 10 mi), Ruidoso (20%, 240 mi), Ohkay Owingeh (20%, 57 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brazos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brazos
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.