Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided · Public domainMost of Lake Roberts commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 2 jobs in Lake Roberts for 10 working residents. Hardly any work in Lake Roberts; the top destination outside it is Albuquerque (20%, 168 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Lake Roberts by day
On a workday 10 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
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 Lake Roberts’ working residents head each day
Where Lake Roberts clocks in
20% of workers
10% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Lake Roberts
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Lake Roberts’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Lake Roberts to work
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.
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 Lake Roberts: questions
Where do people who live in Lake Roberts work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albuquerque (20%, 168 mi), Bayard (10%, 19 mi), Las Vegas (10%, 245 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Roberts, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Roberts
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.