With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Placitas works elsewhere
Employers in Placitas report 4 jobs, against 101 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 12% for New Mexico as a whole. 90.5% of residents live below the poverty line, against 17.8% across New Mexico.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Placitas by day
On a workday 101 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 420 people are in Placitas on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
30% of working residents work in Hatch
Where Placitas clocks in
30% of workers
22% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Placitas
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Placitas, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 4. 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 Placitas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Placitas
of Placitas workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 212 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.
Placitas’ commute, mile by mile
About 23% 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.
Next door is work for 30% of Placitas
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Hatch. Darker towns draw more of Placitas’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 Placitas: questions
What is the poverty rate in Placitas?
90.5%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Placitas work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hatch (30%, 1 mi), Las Cruces (22%, 32 mi), Albuquerque (9%, 171 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Placitas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Placitas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Placitas
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.