Photo: Steven Baltakatei Sandoval · CC BY-SA 4.0Crownpoint has 3.3 jobs for every working resident: 1,089 people commute in to work
Jobs & income D−: better than 2% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #67 of 72 in New Mexico.
Walkability B+: more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns · #23 of 73 in New Mexico.
Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 21 minutes each way (New Mexico 24, U.S. 26). About one in four work in Crownpoint; the top destination outside it is Gallup (21%, 36 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Crownpoint, in brief
Crownpoint has far more jobs than workers
Crownpoint has 1,174 jobs, 3.3 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Crownpoint’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Crownpoint is Gallup, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (75) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
46% 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 ↓
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 356 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Crownpoint’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Crownpoint is better than 2% of U.S. towns, #67 of 72 in New Mexico. Unemployment holds Crownpoint’s grade up (6.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Crownpoint could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Crownpoint fills up on a workday
On a workday 271 residents head out to work, 85 work right here, and 1,089 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Crownpoint on a workday afternoon, 28% more than live here.
3.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Half of Crownpoint commutes less than 40 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 46% 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.
Where Crownpoint’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Crownpoint clocks in
21% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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
1,174 jobs are based in Crownpoint. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Crownpoint’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crownpoint, 2013 → 2023: 1,236 → 1,174. 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.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of New Mexico
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crownpoint workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,016 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.
Most trips from Crownpoint start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Crownpoint is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns, #23 of 73 in New Mexico. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,081 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 50% 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 6.7% of Crownpoint households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Crownpoint’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Crownpoint compares with U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Crownpoint, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 419 | Sandia Heights NM | 3,160 | $144K | 4.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 800 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,421 | Las Campanas NM | 2,119 | $205K | 8.9% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,740 | Grifton NC | 2,539 | $37K | 32.7% | 18.3% | 3% | D− |
| 4,741 | North Crossett AR | 2,556 | $33K | 24.4% | 7.1% | 6% | D− |
| 4,742 | Crownpoint NM | 2,882 | $51K | 31.5% | 6.9% | 24% | D− |
| 4,743 | Eureka KS | 2,239 | $49K | 22.4% | 3.8% | 36% | D− |
| 4,744 | Jay OK | 2,507 | $38K | 23.5% | 13.6% | 19% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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.
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 Crownpoint: questions
What is the median household income in Crownpoint?
$51,011 (±$19,685) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crownpoint?
31.5%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crownpoint?
21 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 Crownpoint work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gallup (21%, 36 mi), Albuquerque (10%, 95 mi), Farmington (7%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Crownpoint walkable?
Crownpoint is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Crownpoint without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crownpoint, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crownpoint
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.