Photo: Zhidoni · CC BY-SA 3.0Santa Fe draws about half of Eldorado at Santa Fe’s working residents
Jobs and income earn Eldorado at Santa Fe B+; getting around on foot earns it C. Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. Working from home is the commute for 29% of workers; New Mexico has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Eldorado at Santa Fe, in brief
Nearly half of Eldorado at Santa Fe works in Santa Fe
930 working residents, 48%, have their main job in Santa Fe, 9.7 miles away. That’s 7 times as many as work in Eldorado at Santa Fe itself. The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Eldorado at Santa Fe
29% of Eldorado at Santa Fe workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
Eldorado at Santa Fe’s workforce skews older
46% of Eldorado at Santa Fe’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
Eldorado at Santa Fe workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 24 across New Mexico. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Eldorado at Santa Fe is a place people come home to
There are 407 jobs based in Eldorado at Santa Fe, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Eldorado at Santa Fe has about 4,100 people in it, 27% 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Eldorado at Santa Fe
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eldorado at Santa Fe is better than 67% of U.S. towns, #6 of 72 in New Mexico. Unemployment holds Eldorado at Santa Fe’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eldorado at Santa Fe could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Where people from Eldorado at Santa Fe work
Where Eldorado at Santa Fe clocks in
48% of workers
16% 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.
About 33 minutes each way, longer than most of New Mexico
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eldorado at Santa Fe workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,850 commuters (the 29% 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.
What Eldorado at Santa Fe’s employers do
407 jobs are based in Eldorado at Santa Fe.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eldorado at Santa Fe, 2013 → 2023: 359 → 407. 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 Eldorado at Santa Fe’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Eldorado at Santa Fe by day
On a workday 1,814 residents head out to work, 129 work right here, and 278 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Eldorado at Santa Fe on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.21 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.
Miles to work from Eldorado at Santa Fe
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.
Few in Eldorado at Santa Fe walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eldorado at Santa Fe is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns, #55 of 73 in New Mexico. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,591 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). 1.1% of Eldorado at Santa Fe households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Eldorado at Santa Fe’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Eldorado at Santa Fe is 1,305th among 3,561 U.S. towns of 3,900 to 7,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 566 | White Rock NM | 5,716 | $157K | 2.5% | 0.2% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 739 | Placitas NM | 4,223 | $110K | 3.2% | 3.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 804 | Los Ranchos de Albuquerque NM | 5,790 | $73K | 8.8% | 0.8% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,303 | Buckley WA | 5,688 | $125K | 9.3% | 4.5% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,304 | Hensley Township IN | 4,086 | $91K | 2.5% | 6.6% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,305 | Eldorado at Santa Fe NM | 5,619 | $107K | 8.4% | 2.1% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,306 | Nevada IA | 6,974 | $75K | 9.9% | 2.0% | 23% | B+ |
| 1,307 | Frankenmuth MI | 5,197 | $85K | 4.9% | 4.7% | 33% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,561 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Eldorado at Santa Fe, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
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 Eldorado at Santa Fe: questions
What is the median household income in Eldorado at Santa Fe?
$106,633 (±$17,864) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eldorado at Santa Fe?
8.4%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eldorado at Santa Fe?
33 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eldorado at Santa Fe work?
7% work in town.
Is Eldorado at Santa Fe walkable?
Eldorado at Santa Fe is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eldorado at Santa Fe without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eldorado at Santa Fe, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eldorado at Santa Fe
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.