Where Pinos Altos earns its living
Pinos Altos has 37 jobs for 50 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; New Mexico has 12%. Hardly any work in Pinos Altos itself; outside it, Silver City draws the most (22%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pinos Altos by day and by night
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Pinos Altos on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.74 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.
Where people from Pinos Altos work
Where Pinos Altos clocks in
22% of workers
18% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Pinos Altos
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinos Altos, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 37. 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 Pinos Altos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Pinos Altos
of Pinos Altos workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Pinos Altos
About 44% 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 Pinos Altos: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pinos Altos?
47.8%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Pinos Altos work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Silver City (22%, 7 mi), Las Cruces (18%, 91 mi), Alamogordo (6%, 131 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pinos Altos 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 Pinos Altos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinos Altos
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.