Photo: Davidhc9 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Ohkay Owingeh earn less than those in 91% of U.S. towns
For 6% of workers, the job is at home (New Mexico 12%). Poverty touches 23.6% of residents, where New Mexico as a whole has 17.8%. The two grades for Ohkay Owingeh are D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Ohkay Owingeh: the gist
Ohkay Owingeh’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Ohkay Owingeh’s grade up (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($47,067, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Ohkay Owingeh’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, Ohkay Owingeh could be anywhere from D− to D.
Ohkay Owingeh’s commute takes about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ohkay Owingeh workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 550 commuters (the 6% 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.
A workday in Ohkay Owingeh: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 214 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 299 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 (1.36 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.
15% of working residents work in Los Alamos
Where Ohkay Owingeh clocks in
15% of workers
15% of workers
12% 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.
Most jobs in Ohkay Owingeh are in services
324 jobs are based in Ohkay Owingeh.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ohkay Owingeh, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 324. 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 Ohkay Owingeh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Ohkay Owingeh’s commute, mile by mile
About 27% 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 Ohkay Owingeh is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ohkay Owingeh is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ohkay Owingeh 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 584 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Ohkay Owingeh households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ohkay Owingeh’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Ohkay Owingeh is 3,825th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 572 | Santa Ana Pueblo NM | 1,026 | $86K | 5.5% | 2.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 846 | Cuartelez NM | 1,512 | $114K | 5.6% | 20.8% | 0% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,823 | Fort Covington NY | 1,518 | $57K | 19.5% | 0.8% | 15% | D |
| 3,824 | First Mesa AZ | 1,459 | $58K | 17.3% | 6.6% | 5% | D |
| 3,825 | Ohkay Owingeh NM | 1,194 | $47K | 23.6% | 2.6% | 10% | D |
| 3,826 | Flippin AR | 1,290 | $44K | 18.8% | 6.7% | 8% | D |
| 3,827 | Urania LA | 1,155 | $47K | 15.4% | 6.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Ohkay Owingeh, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
15% of Ohkay Owingeh works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ohkay Owingeh workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohkay Owingeh | – | D | C | 15 min | $47,067 |
| Española | 15% | C− | B− | 31 min | $47,667 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Española. Darker towns draw more of Ohkay Owingeh’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 Ohkay Owingeh: questions
What is the median household income in Ohkay Owingeh?
$47,067 (±$5,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ohkay Owingeh?
23.6%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ohkay Owingeh?
15 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ohkay Owingeh work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Alamos (15%, 17 mi), Española (15%, 3 mi), Albuquerque (12%, 73 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ohkay Owingeh walkable?
Ohkay Owingeh is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ohkay Owingeh without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ohkay Owingeh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ohkay Owingeh
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.