Work means Albuquerque for about two in three of Paradise Hills’ working residents
For 22% of workers, the job is at home, where New Mexico as a whole has 12%. Jobs and income earn Paradise Hills B; getting around on foot earns it B. Hardly any work in Paradise Hills; the top destination outside it is Albuquerque (67%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Paradise Hills, in brief
More than half of Paradise Hills works in Albuquerque
1,212 working residents, 67%, have their main job in Albuquerque, 7.2 miles away. That’s 67 times as many as work in Paradise Hills itself. The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Paradise Hills’ working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 27 minutes, longer than the New Mexico average of 24. Time on the road ↓
Most Paradise Hills residents work close to home
66% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
A lot of Paradise Hills works from home
22% of Paradise Hills workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
Paradise Hills is a place people come home to
There are 541 jobs based in Paradise Hills, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Paradise Hills has about 3,300 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Jobs & income in Paradise Hills: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Paradise Hills is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #14 of 72 in New Mexico. Job access by car holds Paradise Hills’ grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Paradise Hills could be anywhere from C− to A+.
The places Paradise Hills commutes to
Where Paradise Hills clocks in
67% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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 commute of about 27 minutes in Paradise Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paradise Hills workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,554 commuters (the 22% 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.
Miles to work from Paradise Hills
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.
Paradise Hills on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,791 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 530 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Paradise Hills on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Paradise Hills is a services town
541 jobs are based in Paradise Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paradise Hills, 2013 → 2023: 540 → 541. 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 Paradise Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Paradise Hills walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paradise Hills is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #34 of 73 in New Mexico. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across New Mexico.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,002 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 23% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 56% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.3% of Paradise Hills households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Paradise Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Paradise Hills is 1,822nd of 3,938 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 558 | White Rock NM | 5,716 | $157K | 2.5% | 0.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 743 | Placitas NM | 4,223 | $110K | 3.2% | 3.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 811 | Los Ranchos de Albuquerque NM | 5,790 | $73K | 8.8% | 0.8% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,820 | Lafayette OR | 4,705 | $98K | 5.5% | 7.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,821 | Edgartown MA | 5,446 | $125K | 4.7% | 5.4% | 33% | B |
| 1,822 | Paradise Hills NM | 4,591 | $73K | 11.1% | 4.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,823 | Williamston MI | 3,810 | $71K | 9.2% | 4.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,824 | Irwin PA | 3,759 | $60K | 13.5% | 2.7% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Paradise Hills, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
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 Paradise Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Paradise Hills?
$73,295 (±$25,409) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paradise Hills?
11.1%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paradise Hills?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paradise Hills work?
1% work in town.
Is Paradise Hills walkable?
Paradise Hills is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paradise Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paradise Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paradise Hills
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.