Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY 4.0Butterfield Park’s household incomes are lower than in 98% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 30% of workers, next to 12% for New Mexico as a whole. 33.4% of residents are in poverty, against 17.8% across New Mexico. The two grades for Butterfield Park are D− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Butterfield Park and work: the main findings
Butterfield Park workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 73 minutes each way, against 24 across New Mexico. Over a year that’s about 560 hours of commuting, 376 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Butterfield Park and Las Cruces trade workers both ways
Las Cruces is the top workplace for Butterfield Park residents (55%) and also where the most people who work in Butterfield Park come from (63% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Butterfield Park is a place people come home to
There are 8 jobs based in Butterfield Park, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Butterfield Park has about 830 people in it, 26% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 299 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Butterfield Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Butterfield Park is better than 5% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Butterfield Park’s grade up (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($34,093, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (20.2%) is left out: Butterfield Park’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Butterfield Park could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 73 minutes each way, longer than most of New Mexico
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 23.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Butterfield Park workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 286 commuters (the 30% 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.
55% of working residents work in Las Cruces
Where Butterfield Park clocks in
55% of workers
5% 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.
In and out of Butterfield Park on a workday
On a workday 298 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 7 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Butterfield Park on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.03 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.
What the 8 jobs in Butterfield Park are
8 jobs are based in Butterfield Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Butterfield Park, 2013 → 2023: 1 → 8. 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 Butterfield Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Butterfield Park commutes less than 10 miles
About 15% 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.
In Butterfield Park, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Butterfield Park is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Butterfield Park 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 407 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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). 36.1% of Butterfield Park households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Butterfield Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Butterfield Park compares with U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 483 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 524 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 751 | Sandia Knolls NM | 1,445 | $92K | 4.5% | 3.8% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,419 | Munday TX | 1,190 | $56K | 19.6% | 1.8% | 17% | D− |
| 3,420 | Harpersfield NY | 1,419 | $52K | 18.5% | 5.1% | 15% | D− |
| 3,421 | Butterfield Park NM | 1,119 | $34K | 33.4% | 20.2% | <1% | D− |
| 3,422 | Prairie Creek Township IN | 1,059 | $27K | 26.2% | 12.5% | 1% | D− |
| 3,423 | Garland ME | 1,039 | $51K | 19.3% | 5.6% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Butterfield Park, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
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 Butterfield Park: questions
What is the median household income in Butterfield Park?
$34,093 (±$28,300) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Butterfield Park?
33.4%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Butterfield Park?
73 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Butterfield Park work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Las Cruces (55%, 10 mi), El Paso (5%, 40 mi), Albuquerque (5%, 186 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Butterfield Park walkable?
Butterfield Park is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Butterfield Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 36% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Butterfield Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Butterfield Park
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.