Alexander Grzelachowski House and Store · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Santa Rosa draws more than half of Puerto de Luna’s working residents
4 jobs are based in Puerto de Luna for 45 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers, against 12% across New Mexico. Hardly any work in Puerto de Luna itself; outside it, Santa Rosa draws the most (58%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Puerto de Luna by day and by night
On a workday 45 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Puerto de Luna on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.09 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 Puerto de Luna work
Where Puerto de Luna clocks in
58% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
What Puerto de Luna’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Puerto de Luna, 2013 → 2023: 15 → 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 Puerto de Luna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Puerto de Luna
of Puerto de Luna workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 219 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.
How many miles Puerto de Luna commutes
About 38% 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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Puerto de Luna: questions
What is the median household income in Puerto de Luna?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Puerto de Luna?
2.1%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Puerto de Luna work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Puerto de Luna 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 Puerto de Luna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Puerto de Luna
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.