El Morro National Monument · Photo: Joel Mills · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in El Morro Valley
0% of workers have no commute at all (New Mexico 12%). Only 4% work in El Morro Valley itself; outside it, Gallup draws the most (38%, 40 miles). There are 14 jobs in El Morro Valley, against 24 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of El Morro Valley
On a workday 23 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 43 people are in El Morro Valley on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.58 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.
Where people from El Morro Valley work
Where El Morro Valley clocks in
38% of workers
17% of workers
8% 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.
El Morro Valley is a services town
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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs El Morro Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in El Morro Valley
of El Morro Valley workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11 commuters (the 0% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from El Morro Valley
About 35% 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.
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 El Morro Valley: questions
What is the poverty rate in El Morro Valley?
0.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in El Morro Valley work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gallup (38%, 40 mi), Albuquerque (17%, 96 mi), Roswell (8%, 246 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around El Morro Valley 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 El Morro Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Morro Valley
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.