With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Los Luceros works elsewhere
Getting around Los Luceros on foot earns D−. There are 32 jobs in Los Luceros, against 79 working residents. Hardly any stay in Los Luceros for work; outside it, Albuquerque is the main destination (25%, 78 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 Los Luceros
On a workday 79 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 32 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.
The places Los Luceros commutes to
Where Los Luceros clocks in
25% of workers
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.
A place that makes things: 63% of Los Luceros’ jobs are in goods
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 Los Luceros’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Los Luceros
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Los Luceros workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 428 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Los Luceros
About 56% 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.
In Los Luceros, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Los Luceros is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 2.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 476 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Los Luceros households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Los Luceros’ commuters take a bus or train.
The towns around Los Luceros
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Los Luceros workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Luceros | – | — | D− | 33 min | — |
| La Villita | under 2% | B | D− | 30 min | $104,162 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Los Luceros’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 Los Luceros: questions
What is the poverty rate in Los Luceros?
3.3%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Los Luceros?
33 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Los Luceros work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albuquerque (25%, 78 mi), Los Alamos (20%, 21 mi), Española (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Los Luceros walkable?
Los Luceros is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.4 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Los Luceros without a car?
<1% 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 Los Luceros, from the people who make the trip.
More of Los Luceros
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.