L. C. Ranch Headquarters · Photo: Fourlix · CC BY-SA 4.0Gila has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; New Mexico has 12%. Gila has 6 jobs, against 67 working residents. Hardly any work in Gila itself; outside it, Silver City draws the most (27%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Gila
On a workday 67 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 310 people are in Gila on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
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 Gila work
Where Gila clocks in
27% of workers
16% of workers
6% 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.
In Gila, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gila, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 6. 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 Gila’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Gila
of Gila workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 54 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 from Gila, by distance
About 50% 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.
How Gila compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gila workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gila | – | — | — | — | — |
| Cliff | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cliff: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gila’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Gila: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gila?
30.3%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Gila work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Silver City (27%, 21 mi), Albuquerque (16%, 186 mi), Las Cruces (6%, 112 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Gila 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 Gila, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gila
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.