For more than half of its working residents, Gamerco is a commute to Gallup
Household incomes here are lower than in 89% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Gamerco D−; getting around on foot earns it B−. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, against 12% across New Mexico.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Gamerco
More than half of Gamerco works in Gallup
201 working residents, 56%, have their main job in Gallup, 4.1 miles away. That’s far more as work in Gamerco itself. The commute map ↓
Gamerco is a place people come home to
There are 87 jobs based in Gamerco, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Most Gamerco residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. 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 362 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Gamerco’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Gamerco is better than 4% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Gamerco’s grade up (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (52.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Gamerco’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, Gamerco could be anywhere from D− to D.
Where the trip to work from Gamerco ends
Where Gamerco clocks in
56% of workers
7% 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.
Gamerco on a workday afternoon
On a workday 361 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Gamerco on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.24 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.
The distance from Gamerco to work
About 28% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 41% of the jobs in Gamerco
87 jobs are based in Gamerco.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gamerco, 2013 → 2023: 26 → 87. 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 Gamerco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Gamerco: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gamerco workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 407 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.
The commute in Gamerco is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gamerco is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 407 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 79% 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 45% 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). 7.8% of Gamerco households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gamerco’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gamerco and other U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 572 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 846 | Cuartelez NM | 1,512 | $114K | 5.6% | 20.8% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,925 | Greenwood Township MI | 1,244 | $45K | 14.3% | 8.6% | 11% | D− |
| 3,926 | Westwood CA | 1,063 | $59K | 21.7% | 22.7% | 9% | D− |
| 3,927 | Gamerco NM | 1,176 | $49K | 52.0% | 0.0% | <1% | D− |
| 3,928 | Bismarck MO | 1,224 | $40K | 20.3% | 7.6% | 6% | D− |
| 3,929 | Rose Hill NC | 1,429 | $49K | 23.5% | 6.3% | 9% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Gamerco, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
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 Gamerco: questions
What is the median household income in Gamerco?
$48,977 (±$20,022) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gamerco?
52.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gamerco?
19 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gamerco work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gallup (56%, 4 mi), Albuquerque (7%, 124 mi), St. Michaels (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gamerco walkable?
Gamerco is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gamerco without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gamerco, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gamerco
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.