Tierra Amarilla Historic District · Photo: Carptrash · CC BY 3.0Making a living in Tierra Amarilla
For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where New Mexico as a whole has 12%. Only 2% work in Tierra Amarilla; the top destination outside it is Chama (25%, 13 miles). There are 43 jobs in Tierra Amarilla, and 63 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 62 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 42 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.
0.68 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 Tierra Amarilla goes to work
Where Tierra Amarilla clocks in
5% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Tierra Amarilla
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tierra Amarilla, 2013 → 2023: 54 → 43. 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 Tierra Amarilla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Tierra Amarilla
of Tierra Amarilla workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 353 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 Tierra Amarilla
About 37% 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 Tierra Amarilla: questions
What is the poverty rate in Tierra Amarilla?
0.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Tierra Amarilla work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chama (25%, 13 mi), Dulce (14%, 30 mi), Farmington (5%, 90 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Tierra Amarilla 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 Tierra Amarilla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tierra Amarilla
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.