County profile · New Mexico
Working from home in Lea County, NM
3.7% of workers in Lea County usually work from home, about 1,118 of 30,392 people. That is 8.5 points below the New Mexico average of 12.2%. It ranks 28 of 33 counties in the state.
The county table and teleworkable jobs for the whole state are on the New Mexico remote work page.
Work from home
3.7%
Rank in NM
28 of 33
1 = highest share
Remote workers
1,118
Mean commute
24.4 min
Lea County compared with New Mexico and the US
| Metric | Lea County | New Mexico | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 3.7% | 12.2% | 15.1% |
| Drove alone | 75.6% | 73.6% | Not shown |
| Public transit | 0.3% | 0.6% | Not shown |
| Mean commute | 24.4 min | 23.5 min | Not shown |
| Men working from home | 3.6% | 10.0% | Not shown |
| Women working from home | 3.8% | 14.6% | Not shown |
| Workers aged 16+ | 30,392 | 916,223 | 159,114,094 |
The US column is calculated from the published state counts for the 50 states and DC. Other national metrics are not part of our data files, so we do not show them.
How people commute
Drove alone75.6%
Worked from home3.7%
Public transit0.3%
Counties with a similar rank
- Union County6.2%
- Chaves County5.4%
- Roosevelt County4.6%
- Curry County3.7%
- De Baca County3.6%
- Hidalgo County3.6%
- Guadalupe County2.9%
- Harding County2.8%
Largest counties in New Mexico
- Bernalillo County14.9%
- Doña Ana County9.5%
- Santa Fe County18.4%
- Sandoval County16.8%
- San Juan County6.3%
- Valencia County11.1%
- Otero County6.7%
- Eddy County6.5%