Photo: AllenS · Public domainHousehold incomes in Radium Springs are lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
For 1% of workers, the job is at home (New Mexico 12%). The poverty rate is 15.4%; New Mexico has 17.8%. Radium Springs grades D for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Radium Springs
Radium Springs and Las Cruces trade workers both ways
Las Cruces is the top workplace for Radium Springs residents (47%) and also where the most people who work in Radium Springs come from (55% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Radium Springs makes and builds things
92% of the jobs based in Radium Springs are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Radium Springs residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
Radium Springs has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Radium Springs went from 364 in 2013 to 572 in 2023, +57%. The jobs ↓
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 482 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Radium Springs
On income, poverty and job access, Radium Springs is better than 10% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Radium Springs’ grade up; household income pulls it down ($43,836, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.7%) is left out: Radium Springs’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Radium Springs could be anywhere from D− to C+.
47% of working residents work in Las Cruces
Where Radium Springs clocks in
47% of workers
7% 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.
Radium Springs makes things: 92% of its jobs are in goods
572 jobs are based in Radium Springs.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Radium Springs, 2013 → 2023: 364 → 572. 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 Radium Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Radium Springs by day
On a workday 463 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 553 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Radium Springs’ commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Radium Springs workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 694 commuters (the 1% 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.
Where in the region Radium Springs works
About 27% 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.
Most of Radium Springs commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Radium Springs is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Radium Springs near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 703 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). 2.9% of Radium Springs households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Radium Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Radium Springs ranks 4,991st of 5,921 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 727 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 925 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,102 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,989 | Edmeston NY | 1,892 | $68K | 25.7% | 2.3% | 20% | D |
| 4,990 | Otto Township PA | 1,474 | $53K | 16.4% | 5.6% | 3% | D |
| 4,991 | Radium Springs NM | 1,908 | $44K | 15.4% | 8.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,992 | Winnsboro Mills SC | 1,535 | $35K | 38.8% | 9.8% | 2% | D |
| 4,993 | Wilkinson Heights SC | 2,012 | $25K | 29.7% | 15.0% | 8% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Radium Springs, 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 Radium Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Radium Springs?
$43,836 (±$10,082) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Radium Springs?
15.4%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Radium Springs?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Radium Springs work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Las Cruces (47%, 12 mi), Albuquerque (7%, 182 mi), El Paso (6%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Radium Springs walkable?
Radium Springs is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Radium Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Radium Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Radium Springs
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.