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About one in four stay in Reserve for work; outside it, Albuquerque is the main destination (8%, 154 miles). There are 159 jobs in Reserve, against 71 working residents. Home is the office for 39% of workers, against 12% across New Mexico.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Reserve
On a workday 50 residents head out to work and 21 work right here.
About 400 people are in Reserve on a workday afternoon, 28% more 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.
Where the people who work in Reserve live
Where Reserve clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Reserve
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reserve, 2013 → 2023: 202 → 159. 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 Reserve’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 8 minutes to work from Reserve
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reserve workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 70 commuters (the 39% 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.
Half of Reserve commutes less than 52 miles
About 54% 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 Reserve: questions
What is the poverty rate in Reserve?
56.3%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reserve?
8 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 39% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reserve work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albuquerque (8%, 154 mi), Las Cruces (7%, 149 mi), Silver City (4%, 70 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Reserve 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 Reserve, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reserve
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.