Household incomes put Las Campanas near the very top of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Below the poverty line: 8.9% of residents (New Mexico 17.8%). Las Campanas grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Las Campanas
Las Campanas and Santa Fe trade workers both ways
Santa Fe is the top workplace for Las Campanas residents (45%) and also where the most people who work in Las Campanas come from (46% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Las Campanas
32% of Las Campanas workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Las Campanas
63% of Las Campanas residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Las Campanas pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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 429 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Las Campanas
On income, poverty and job access, Las Campanas is better than 67% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Las Campanas’ grade up ($204,922, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Las Campanas’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, Las Campanas could be anywhere from C+ to A.
45% of working residents work in Santa Fe
Where Las Campanas clocks in
45% of workers
14% of workers
10% 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.
Getting to work from Las Campanas takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Las Campanas workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 32% 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.
Las Campanas is a services town
334 jobs are based in Las Campanas.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Las Campanas, 2013 → 2023: 103 → 334. 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 Las Campanas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Las Campanas
On a workday 418 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 323 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Near or far: the trip to work from Las Campanas
About 22% 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 Las Campanas, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Las Campanas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 758 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 Las Campanas households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Las Campanas’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Las Campanas is 1,346th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 718 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 911 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,203 | Mesilla NM | 1,818 | $75K | 4.5% | 6.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,344 | Honeyville UT | 1,806 | $87K | 3.5% | 3.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,345 | Washington Township OH | 1,777 | $85K | 7.2% | 2.5% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,346 | Las Campanas NM | 2,119 | $205K | 8.9% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,347 | Chester Township MI | 2,117 | $80K | 8.0% | 3.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,348 | Cook Township PA | 1,836 | $71K | 5.9% | 2.2% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Las Campanas, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
The towns around Las Campanas
The biggest share goes to Tres Arroyos (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Las Campanas workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Campanas | – | B+ | B | 20 min | $204,922 |
| Tres Arroyos | 2% | A− | C | 32 min | $87,841 |
| La Tierra | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
| Tano Road | under 1% | B− | B | 35 min | $183,162 |
Same-state neighbors only. La Tierra: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Las Campanas’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 Las Campanas: questions
What is the median household income in Las Campanas?
$204,922 (±$99,305) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Las Campanas?
8.9%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Las Campanas?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Las Campanas work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Fe (45%, 6 mi), Albuquerque (14%, 54 mi), Los Alamos (10%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Las Campanas walkable?
Las Campanas is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Las Campanas 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 Las Campanas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Las Campanas
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.