Photo: AllenS · Public domainEunice’s household incomes are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income D: better than 12% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #50 of 72 in New Mexico.
Walkability C−: more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns · #60 of 73 in New Mexico.
Working residents average 19 minutes each way (New Mexico 24, U.S. 26). About one in four work in Eunice; the top destination outside it is Hobbs (16%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Eunice, in brief
Eunice and Hobbs trade workers both ways
Hobbs is the top workplace for Eunice residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Eunice come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Eunice makes and builds things
49% of the jobs based in Eunice are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Eunice residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 33%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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 980 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Eunice’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eunice is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #50 of 72 in New Mexico. The poverty rate holds Eunice’s grade up (12.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($49,087, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eunice could be anywhere from D− to B.
16% of working residents work in Hobbs
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Eunice clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Eunice makes things: 49% of its jobs are in goods
1,081 jobs are based in Eunice. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Eunice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eunice, 2013 → 2023: 1,430 → 1,081. 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.
Half of Eunice commutes less than 20 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 722 residents head out to work, 258 work right here, and 823 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 19 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 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eunice workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,174 commuters (the 3% 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 Eunice start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eunice is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns, #60 of 73 in New Mexico. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across New Mexico.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,208 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). 11.7% of Eunice households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eunice’s commuters take a bus or train.
Eunice is 4,157th of 4,771 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Eunice, 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 418 | Sandia Heights NM | 3,160 | $144K | 4.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,401 | Las Campanas NM | 2,119 | $205K | 8.9% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,446 | El Cerro NM | 2,923 | $106K | 5.9% | 4.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,155 | Sanilac Township MI | 2,281 | $57K | 11.6% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 4,156 | Douglass Township MI | 2,342 | $67K | 13.1% | 8.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,157 | Eunice NM | 3,037 | $49K | 12.9% | 6.3% | 26% | D |
| 4,158 | Grant Township MI | 3,034 | $58K | 13.9% | 10.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,159 | New Berlin NY | 2,482 | $62K | 16.2% | 6.8% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Eunice: questions
What is the median household income in Eunice?
$49,087 (±$21,009) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eunice?
12.9%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eunice?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eunice work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hobbs (16%, 20 mi), Albuquerque (7%, 273 mi), Carlsbad (5%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eunice walkable?
Eunice is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eunice without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eunice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eunice
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.