Apache Canyon Railroad Bridge · Photo: Arlo James Barnes · CC BY-SA 3.0Work means Santa Fe for more than half of Cañoncito’s working residents
Home is the office for 46% of workers, next to 12% for New Mexico as a whole. Cañoncito grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 1% stay in Cañoncito for work; outside it, Santa Fe is the main destination (51%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cañoncito in brief
More than half of Cañoncito works in Santa Fe
192 working residents, 51%, have their main job in Santa Fe, 12 miles away. That’s 51 times as many as work in Cañoncito itself. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Cañoncito
46% of Cañoncito workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
Cañoncito is a place people come home to
There are 61 jobs based in Cañoncito, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cañoncito has about 940 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 375 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Cañoncito: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Cañoncito is better than 44% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cañoncito’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Cañoncito’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Cañoncito could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The places Cañoncito commutes to
Where Cañoncito clocks in
51% of workers
14% of workers
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.
From Cañoncito, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cañoncito workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 327 commuters (the 46% 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.
Cañoncito by day and by night
On a workday 371 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Cañoncito on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
0.16 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.
Most jobs in Cañoncito are in services
61 jobs are based in Cañoncito.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cañoncito, 2013 → 2023: 241 → 61. 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 Cañoncito’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Cañoncito works
About 19% 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.
The commute in Cañoncito is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cañoncito is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 608 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Cañoncito households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Cañoncito’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cañoncito is 1,936th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 652 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 705 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 962 | Cuartelez NM | 1,512 | $114K | 5.6% | 20.8% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,934 | Seneca WI | 1,030 | $87K | 11.0% | 4.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,935 | Glencoe FL | 1,445 | $47K | 5.1% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,936 | Cañoncito NM | 1,253 | $78K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,937 | Onsted MI | 1,002 | $67K | 6.4% | 8.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,938 | Upper Tyrone Township PA | 1,694 | $68K | 11.6% | 6.7% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Cañoncito, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
How Cañoncito compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cañoncito workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cañoncito | – | C+ | C | 30 min | $78,220 |
| Cañada de los Alamos | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cañada de los Alamos: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cañoncito’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Cañoncito: questions
What is the median household income in Cañoncito?
$78,220 (±$9,904) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cañoncito?
8.2%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cañoncito?
30 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 46% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cañoncito work?
1% work in town.
Is Cañoncito walkable?
Cañoncito is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cañoncito without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cañoncito, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cañoncito
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.