Photo: jaygannett from La Veta, CO, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Mosquero, and the trip to work
49 jobs are based in Mosquero for 34 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers; New Mexico has 12%. Only 6% work in Mosquero; the top destination outside it is Roy (9%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Mosquero, and who commutes in
On a workday 32 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 47 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Mosquero on a workday afternoon, 17% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.44 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.
Where Mosquero’s working residents head each day
Where Mosquero clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
9% 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 Mosquero, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mosquero, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 49. 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 Mosquero’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mosquero
of Mosquero workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7 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 Mosquero, by distance
About 66% 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 Mosquero: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mosquero?
16.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mosquero work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Roy (9%, 18 mi), Roswell (9%, 169 mi), Albuquerque (9%, 158 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mosquero 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 Mosquero, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mosquero
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.