Photo: US gov · Public domainWhere Santa Clara Pueblo earns its living
The average commute takes 26 minutes each way; New Mexico averages 24, the U.S. 26. About one in five work in Santa Clara Pueblo itself; outside it, Los Alamos draws the most (14%, 12 miles). Employers in Santa Clara Pueblo report 212 jobs, and 254 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Santa Clara Pueblo
On a workday 197 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 155 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 (0.83 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.
Out of Santa Clara Pueblo to work: where people go
Where Santa Clara Pueblo clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
9% 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.
Santa Clara Pueblo is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Santa Clara Pueblo, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 212. 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 Santa Clara Pueblo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Santa Clara Pueblo
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Santa Clara Pueblo workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 224 commuters (the 8% 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.
How far Santa Clara Pueblo’s workers travel
About 26% 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.
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 Santa Clara Pueblo: questions
What is the median household income in Santa Clara Pueblo?
$46,875 (±$16,186) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Santa Clara Pueblo?
26.7%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Santa Clara Pueblo?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Santa Clara Pueblo work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Los Alamos (14%, 12 mi), Santa Fe (12%, 22 mi), Española (9%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Santa Clara Pueblo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Santa Clara Pueblo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Santa Clara Pueblo
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.