Jobs, income and commuting in Garfield, NM
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 27 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 30 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 (1.11 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.
18% of working residents work in Las Cruces
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Garfield clocks in
18% of workers
14% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 31 jobs in Garfield are
31 jobs are based in Garfield. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Garfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Garfield, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 31. 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.
Working from home in Garfield
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
of Garfield workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 80 commuters (the 6% 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 Garfield commutes less than 39 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 33% 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.
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 Garfield: questions
What is the poverty rate in Garfield?
84.7%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Garfield work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Las Cruces (18%, 41 mi), Albuquerque (14%, 166 mi), Hatch (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Garfield 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 Garfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Garfield
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.