Las Cruces

City Commute Profile

Las Cruces, NM

Where Las Cruces’s 45,123 resident workers go each day — 60.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is University Park.

New MexicoLODES 2023 data
77
Commute Score

77 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Las Cruces at a glance
Employed Residents
45,123
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
13.3mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
60.2%
Share working within the area
Work from home
10.7%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
University Park
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Las Cruces proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Las Cruces commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Las Cruces

45,123 commutes, one dot at a time

Las Cruces

Where 45,123 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Las Cruces, by worker count.

1Las Cruces0.0 mi27,171
2University Park3.3 mi2,639
3El Paso41.7 mi2,404
4Albuquerque192.2 mi1,954
5Mesilla4.2 mi549
6Alamogordo61.6 mi362
7Radium Springs13.3 mi328
8Anthony23.8 mi313

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Las Cruces.

1Las Cruces0.0 mi27,171
2El Paso41.7 mi2,050
3Albuquerque192.2 mi1,381
4Alamogordo61.6 mi898
5Anthony23.8 mi583
6Deming58.3 mi581
7Roswell149.2 mi524
8San Ysidro3.7 mi499

Top industries

The sectors that employ Las Cruces’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance27.7%
RTRetail Trade15.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services12.2%
EDEducational Services8.2%
PAPublic Administration6.3%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.7%
COConstruction5.4%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.4%
FIFinance and Insurance2.9%

Las Cruces city profile

Who lives in Las Cruces — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
114,197
Median age
33.0yrs
Median household income
$55,422
Median home value
$231,700
Median gross rent
$974/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
36.7%
Poverty rate
22.6%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Las Cruces

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

6 providers · 3 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps70%
5 Gbps
8 Gbps
See all internet providers in Las Cruces

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