Photo: David · CC BY 2.0For about half of its working residents, Ranchos de Taos is a commute to Taos
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. Ranchos de Taos grades C− for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, against 12% across New Mexico.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ranchos de Taos: the figures worth knowing
Nearly half of Ranchos de Taos works in Taos
373 working residents, 47%, have their main job in Taos, 2.1 miles away across the town line. That’s 16 times as many as work in Ranchos de Taos itself. The commute map ↓
Ranchos de Taos is a place people come home to
There are 186 jobs based in Ranchos de Taos, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Ranchos de Taos
28% of Ranchos de Taos workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
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 791 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Ranchos de Taos to work: where people go
Where Ranchos de Taos clocks in
47% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
Ranchos de Taos on a workday afternoon
On a workday 769 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 164 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Ranchos de Taos on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.24 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.
Getting to work from Ranchos de Taos takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ranchos de Taos workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 518 commuters (the 28% 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.
Inside Ranchos de Taos’ 186 jobs
186 jobs are based in Ranchos de Taos.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ranchos de Taos, 2013 → 2023: 225 → 186. 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 Ranchos de Taos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Ranchos de Taos goes to work
About 28% 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 Ranchos de Taos is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ranchos de Taos is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns, #62 of 73 in New Mexico. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across New Mexico.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 723 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 Ranchos de Taos households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ranchos de Taos’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranchos de Taos and its neighbors: 47% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ranchos de Taos workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranchos de Taos | – | — | C− | 24 min | — |
| Talpa | under 1% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Taos | 47% | D | A | 26 min | $47,304 |
Same-state neighbors only. Talpa: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Taos. Darker towns draw more of Ranchos de Taos’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 Ranchos de Taos: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ranchos de Taos?
10.2%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ranchos de Taos?
24 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ranchos de Taos work?
3% work in town.
Is Ranchos de Taos walkable?
Ranchos de Taos is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ranchos de Taos 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 Ranchos de Taos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ranchos de Taos
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.