Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0El Rancho has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn El Rancho C−; getting around on foot earns it D. El Rancho has 16 jobs for 568 working residents. Hardly any work in El Rancho itself; outside it, Los Alamos draws the most (28%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
El Rancho at work: what stands out
El Rancho is a place people come home to
There are 16 jobs based in El Rancho, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday El Rancho has about 900 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
28% of El Rancho works in Los Alamos
157 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Los Alamos, 11 miles away. That’s far more as work in El Rancho itself. The commute map ↓
El Rancho workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 24 across New Mexico. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 568 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
El Rancho’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, El Rancho is better than 24% of U.S. towns. Household income holds El Rancho’s grade up ($80,417, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: El Rancho’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, El Rancho could be anywhere from D− to B−.
El Rancho by day and by night
On a workday 568 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in El Rancho on a workday afternoon, 38% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of El Rancho to work: where people go
Where El Rancho clocks in
28% of workers
24% of workers
11% 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.
About 29 minutes to work from El Rancho
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Rancho workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 577 commuters (the 7% 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.
Making and building: 38% of jobs based in El Rancho
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Rancho, 2013 → 2023: 10 → 16. 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 El Rancho’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from El Rancho, by distance
About 18% 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.
In El Rancho, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, El Rancho is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 623 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). 3.0% of El Rancho households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of El Rancho’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, El Rancho comes 4,100th 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 815 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 905 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 977 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,098 | Mars Hill ME | 1,318 | $65K | 9.6% | 10.8% | 21% | C− |
| 4,099 | Howard NY | 1,351 | $74K | 12.9% | 4.4% | 1% | C− |
| 4,100 | El Rancho NM | 1,451 | $80K | 19.6% | 0.9% | 0% | C− |
| 4,101 | Concord Township IL | 1,416 | $66K | 13.0% | 4.3% | 4% | C− |
| 4,102 | Reeder Township MI | 1,215 | $69K | 11.1% | 10.5% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 El Rancho, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
El Rancho and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | El Rancho workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Rancho | – | C− | D | 29 min | $80,417 |
| San Ildefonso Pueblo | under 1% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Jaconita | under 1% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. San Ildefonso Pueblo and Jaconita: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of El Rancho’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 El Rancho: questions
What is the median household income in El Rancho?
$80,417 (±$40,677) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Rancho?
19.6%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Rancho?
29 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Rancho work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Alamos (28%, 11 mi), Santa Fe (24%, 17 mi), Albuquerque (11%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is El Rancho walkable?
El Rancho is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around El Rancho without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from El Rancho, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Rancho
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.