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Counties With the Shortest Commute in New Mexico (2026)

De Baca has the lowest commute time of any county in New Mexico, at 11.4 min, followed by Quay and Los Alamos. Source: Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Shortest counties for commute time in New Mexico

Top 25 of 33 counties with data.

Ranked by avg commute time (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Shortest counties for commute time in New Mexico
RankCountyValue
1De Baca11.4 min
2Quay11.4 min
3Los Alamos14.7 min
4Sierra14.8 min
5Roosevelt15.7 min
6Socorro16.2 min
7Curry16.5 min
8Union16.7 min
9Grant17.9 min
10Luna19.1 min
11Chaves19.3 min
12Guadalupe19.7 min
13Colfax19.9 min
14Lincoln20.0 min
15Harding20.6 min
16Eddy21.4 min
17Otero22.1 min
18Hidalgo22.2 min
19San Miguel22.7 min
20Doña Ana22.8 min
21Bernalillo22.9 min
22Santa Fe23.8 min
23Cibola24.0 min
24San Juan24.2 min
25Lea24.4 min

How this ranking works

This page ranks New Mexico counties by avg commute time, sorted so the shortest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For commute time, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh commute time against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of avg commute time.

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