Dixon has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income D−: near the bottom of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 65 minutes each way (New Mexico 24, U.S. 26). Only 1% work in Dixon; the top destination outside it is Los Alamos (23%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Dixon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Dixon is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Household income holds Dixon’s grade up ($54,231, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.4%) is left out: Dixon’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, Dixon could be anywhere from D− to C.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 185 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.26 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.
23% of working residents work in Los Alamos
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Dixon clocks in
23% of workers
17% of workers
11% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 49 jobs in Dixon are
49 jobs are based in Dixon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dixon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dixon, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 49. 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 65 minutes each way, longer 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 20.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dixon workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 285 commuters (the 17% 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.
Half of Dixon commutes less than 35 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 39% 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.
Most trips from Dixon start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dixon is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 17.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 342 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). 0.0% of Dixon households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dixon’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Dixon compares with U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Dixon, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 669 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 860 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,025 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,010 | Big River CA | 1,140 | $40K | 20.0% | 11.3% | 1% | D− |
| 6,011 | Crow Agency MT | 2,192 | $52K | 39.2% | 32.4% | 44% | D− |
| 6,012 | Dixon NM | 1,623 | $54K | 37.6% | 10.4% | 1% | D− |
| 6,013 | La Pryor TX | 1,236 | $39K | 24.0% | 11.6% | 12% | D− |
| 6,014 | Ragland AL | 1,710 | $38K | 40.5% | 12.3% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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.
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 Dixon: questions
What is the median household income in Dixon?
$54,231 (±$32,011) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dixon?
37.6%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dixon?
65 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dixon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Alamos (23%, 30 mi), Albuquerque (17%, 86 mi), Española (11%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dixon walkable?
Dixon is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 17% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dixon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dixon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dixon
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.