With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Villanueva works elsewhere
Home is the office for 44% of workers, against 12% across New Mexico. Villanueva has 19 jobs; 43 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Villanueva itself; outside it, Albuquerque draws the most (28%, 74 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Villanueva, and who commutes in
On a workday 43 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 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.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Villanueva: the destinations
Where Villanueva clocks in
28% of workers
23% of workers
7% 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.
Jobs in Villanueva: what the 19 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Villanueva’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Villanueva: about 43 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Villanueva workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 106 commuters (the 45% 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 Villanueva commutes less than 44 miles
About 47% 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 Villanueva: questions
What is the poverty rate in Villanueva?
0.0%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Villanueva?
43 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 44% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Villanueva work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albuquerque (28%, 74 mi), Santa Fe (23%, 44 mi), Las Vegas (7%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Villanueva 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 Villanueva, from the people who make the trip.
More of Villanueva
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.