Photo: Harrison Frazier from santa fe, usa · CC BY-SA 2.0Pojoaque has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 7% work in Pojoaque; the top destination outside it is Santa Fe (26%, 16 miles). 373 jobs are based in Pojoaque for 894 working residents. Pojoaque grades C 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 the numbers say about work in Pojoaque
Fewer jobs are based in Pojoaque than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Pojoaque fell from 2,011 in 2013 to 373 in 2023, −81%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Pojoaque and Santa Fe trade workers both ways
Santa Fe is the top workplace for Pojoaque residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Pojoaque come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 894 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Pojoaque’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pojoaque is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Pojoaque’s grade up ($74,028, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (7.0%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pojoaque could be anywhere from C− to B−.
What Pojoaque’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pojoaque, 2013 → 2023: 2,011 → 373. 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 Pojoaque’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Pojoaque goes to work
Where Pojoaque clocks in
26% of workers
21% 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.
Who commutes out of Pojoaque, and who commutes in
On a workday 833 residents head out to work, 61 work right here, and 312 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Pojoaque on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
How long Pojoaque spends getting to work: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pojoaque workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,036 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Pojoaque
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.
Pojoaque is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pojoaque is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,147 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). 6.2% of Pojoaque households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Pojoaque’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pojoaque places 3,386th of 5,328 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 737 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 933 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,226 | Mesilla NM | 1,818 | $75K | 4.5% | 6.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,384 | Adams Township IN | 1,853 | $55K | 11.3% | 0.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,385 | Rainbow Park FL | 2,056 | $67K | 12.9% | 4.2% | 1% | C |
| 3,386 | Pojoaque NM | 2,327 | $74K | 11.3% | 7.0% | 7% | C |
| 3,387 | Prince George VA | 1,829 | $62K | 19.2% | 0.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,388 | Greensboro Township IN | 1,674 | $56K | 12.4% | 4.8% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Pojoaque, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
Next door to Pojoaque
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Pojoaque’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 Pojoaque: questions
What is the median household income in Pojoaque?
$74,028 (±$5,724) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pojoaque?
11.3%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pojoaque?
22 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pojoaque work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Fe (26%, 16 mi), Los Alamos (21%, 16 mi), Albuquerque (12%, 65 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pojoaque walkable?
Pojoaque is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pojoaque without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pojoaque, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pojoaque
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.