Fort Wingate Historic District (Boundary Increase) · Photo: Elias Olcott Beaman / James Fennemore / John Karl Hillers · Public domainFort Wingate has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
A typical one-way commute lasts 14 minutes; New Mexico averages 24, the U.S. 26. Fort Wingate has 2 jobs for 47 working residents. Hardly any stay in Fort Wingate for work; outside it, Gallup is the main destination (30%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Fort Wingate, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 47 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 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.
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 Fort Wingate goes to work
Where Fort Wingate clocks in
30% of workers
21% 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.
100% of the jobs in Fort Wingate pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Wingate, 2013 → 2023: 317 → 2. 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 Fort Wingate’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Fort Wingate takes about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Wingate workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 307 commuters (the 15% 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.
How far it is to work from Fort Wingate
About 30% 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fort Wingate: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Wingate?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Wingate?
29.6%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Wingate?
14 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Wingate work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gallup (30%, 12 mi), Crownpoint (21%, 28 mi), Church Rock (9%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fort Wingate 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 Fort Wingate, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Wingate
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.