A job hub: Cannon AFB has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 641 people come in to work
Cannon AFB has 651 jobs for 313 working residents. The two grades for Cannon AFB are C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Home is the office for 2% of workers, next to 12% for New Mexico as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cannon AFB stands out on work
A big share show a job far from home
59% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
The jobs in Cannon AFB pay better than its residents’ jobs
78% of the jobs based in Cannon AFB pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 33% of the jobs Cannon AFB residents hold. 98% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Cannon AFB. The jobs ↓
Cannon AFB and Clovis trade workers both ways
Clovis is the top workplace for Cannon AFB residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Cannon AFB come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 313 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Cannon AFB’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On family income, poverty and job access, Cannon AFB is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cannon AFB’s grade up (6.3%, U.S. 11.9%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns).
15% of Cannon AFB’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (17% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 6.3%, against 8.5% for all residents. Unemployment (18.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($78,409), since student households pull the household median down ($63,000).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Cannon AFB could be anywhere from D to B+.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Cannon AFB
About 59% 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.
78% of the jobs in Cannon AFB pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cannon AFB, 2013 → 2023: 493 → 651. 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 Cannon AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Cannon AFB’s workforce comes from
Where Cannon AFB clocks in
29% of workers
10% 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 Cannon AFB on a workday
On a workday 303 residents head out to work and 10 work right here.
About 2,700 people are in Cannon AFB on a workday afternoon, 14% more 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.
Each way, about 8 minutes from Cannon AFB
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cannon AFB workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,371 commuters (the 2% 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.
Cannon AFB is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cannon AFB is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,393 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). 6.5% of Cannon AFB households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cannon AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cannon AFB is 2,841st of 4,995 U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 376 | Sandia Heights NM | 3,160 | $144K | 4.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 917 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,839 | East Penn Township PA | 2,812 | $70K | 10.1% | 6.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,840 | Franklin Township PA | 2,222 | $51K | 15.2% | 0.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,841 | Cannon AFB NM | 2,405 | $63K | 8.5% | 18.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,842 | Beacon Hill WA | 1,804 | $87K | 15.5% | 2.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,843 | Cordova AK | 2,401 | $85K | 2.9% | 8.4% | — | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Cannon AFB, 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.
- Students. 15% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Cannon AFB: questions
What is the median household income in Cannon AFB?
$63,000 (±$25,627) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cannon AFB?
8.5% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 6.3%. New Mexico: 17.8%.
How long is the commute from Cannon AFB?
8 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cannon AFB work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clovis (29%, 8 mi), Albuquerque (10%, 196 mi), Lubbock (6%, 100 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cannon AFB walkable?
Cannon AFB is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cannon AFB without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cannon AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cannon AFB
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.