El Valle de Arroyo Seco has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for El Valle de Arroyo Seco are C+ for jobs and income and D− for walkability. El Valle de Arroyo Seco has 66 jobs, against 480 working residents. Only 1% work in El Valle de Arroyo Seco; the top destination outside it is Los Alamos (24%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from El Valle de Arroyo Seco, in brief
The figures behind El Valle de Arroyo Seco’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, El Valle de Arroyo Seco is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds El Valle de Arroyo Seco’s grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: El Valle de Arroyo Seco’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 Valle de Arroyo Seco could be anywhere from D to B+.
El Valle de Arroyo Seco on a workday afternoon
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 61 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in El Valle de Arroyo Seco on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 Valle de Arroyo Seco to work: where people go
Where El Valle de Arroyo Seco clocks in
24% of workers
17% of workers
15% 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.
Making and building: 35% of jobs based in El Valle de Arroyo Seco
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in El Valle de Arroyo Seco, 2013 → 2023: 124 → 66. 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 Valle de Arroyo Seco’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from El Valle de Arroyo Seco
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of El Valle de Arroyo Seco workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 458 commuters (the 19% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from El Valle de Arroyo Seco
About 26% 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.
El Valle de Arroyo Seco is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, El Valle de Arroyo Seco is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place El Valle de Arroyo Seco near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 568 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 El Valle de Arroyo Seco households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of El Valle de Arroyo Seco’s commuters take a bus or train.
How El Valle de Arroyo Seco ranks: 2,077th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
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| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,075 | Pike Township IN | 1,161 | $88K | 8.9% | 9.9% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,076 | Bolinas CA | 1,334 | $101K | 9.1% | 2.6% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,077 | El Valle de Arroyo Seco NM | 1,293 | $68K | 6.5% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,078 | Dale IN | 1,517 | $62K | 7.6% | 3.0% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,079 | Edgington Township IL | 1,403 | $85K | 19.1% | 3.9% | 4% | 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 El Valle de Arroyo Seco, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
Work in the towns next to El Valle de Arroyo Seco
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | El Valle de Arroyo Seco workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| El Valle de Arroyo Seco | – | C+ | D− | 26 min | $67,826 |
| La Puebla | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Sombrillo | 1% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. La Puebla and Sombrillo: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Sombrillo. Darker towns draw more of El Valle de Arroyo Seco’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 Valle de Arroyo Seco: questions
What is the median household income in El Valle de Arroyo Seco?
$67,826 (±$31,637) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in El Valle de Arroyo Seco?
6.5%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from El Valle de Arroyo Seco?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in El Valle de Arroyo Seco work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Alamos (24%, 15 mi), Española (17%, 4 mi), Santa Fe (15%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is El Valle de Arroyo Seco walkable?
El Valle de Arroyo Seco is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around El Valle de Arroyo Seco without a car?
0% 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 El Valle de Arroyo Seco, from the people who make the trip.
More of El Valle de Arroyo Seco
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.