Las Cruces draws about half of Picacho Hills’ working residents
Working residents average 30 minutes each way, next to 24 for New Mexico and 26 for the U.S. Picacho Hills grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Picacho Hills is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Picacho Hills apart on work
Most Picacho Hills residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Picacho Hills’ working residents have a job less than 8 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 30 minutes, longer than the New Mexico average of 24. Time on the road ↓
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; with 465 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Picacho Hills: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Picacho Hills is better than 80% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Picacho Hills’ grade up ($120,850, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Picacho Hills’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Picacho Hills could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Where Picacho Hills goes to work
Where Picacho Hills clocks in
47% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Picacho Hills
About 24% 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.
Commuting from Picacho Hills: about 30 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Picacho Hills workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 475 commuters (the 18% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Picacho Hills
On a workday 456 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 155 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Picacho Hills on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.35 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.
Jobs in Picacho Hills: what the 164 are
164 jobs are based in Picacho Hills.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Picacho Hills, 2013 → 2023: 154 → 164. 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 Picacho Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Picacho Hills, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Picacho Hills is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 576 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.0% of Picacho Hills households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Picacho Hills’ commuters take a bus or train.
Picacho Hills places 704th of 5,509 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 702 | Isanti Township MN | 2,350 | $98K | 3.7% | 3.6% | 1% | A− |
| 703 | Upper Oxford Township PA | 2,595 | $115K | 6.7% | 3.0% | 4% | A− |
| 704 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| 705 | Telluride CO | 2,454 | $102K | 0.6% | 1.4% | 51% | A− |
| 706 | Township 6 NE | 1,587 | $95K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 893 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,053 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,189 | Mesilla NM | 1,818 | $75K | 4.5% | 6.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Picacho Hills, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
Work next door: 47% of Picacho Hills’ workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Picacho Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picacho Hills | – | A− | C | 30 min | $120,850 |
| Las Cruces | 47% | C− | A− | 19 min | $55,422 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Las Cruces. Darker towns draw more of Picacho Hills’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 Picacho Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Picacho Hills?
$120,850 (±$42,890) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Picacho Hills?
5.6%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Picacho Hills?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Picacho Hills work?
2% work in town.
Is Picacho Hills walkable?
Picacho Hills is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Picacho Hills without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Picacho Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Picacho 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.