Santo Domingo Indian Trading Post · Photo: Svobodat · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Santo Domingo Pueblo commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Santo Domingo Pueblo has 195 jobs; 439 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Santo Domingo Pueblo is better than 9% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (A−). Measured by household income, Santo Domingo Pueblo is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Santo Domingo Pueblo in brief
Santo Domingo Pueblo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Santo Domingo Pueblo is Albuquerque, 33 miles away as the crow flies. 21% of working residents (93) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Santo Domingo Pueblo workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 32 minutes each way, against 24 across New Mexico. Over a year that’s about 245 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 439 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Santo Domingo Pueblo earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Santo Domingo Pueblo’s grade.
Unemployment (9.1%) is left out: Santo Domingo Pueblo’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, Santo Domingo Pueblo could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How many miles Santo Domingo Pueblo commutes
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.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Santo Domingo Pueblo
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Santo Domingo Pueblo workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 689 commuters (the 19% 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.
Who commutes out of Santo Domingo Pueblo, and who commutes in
On a workday 374 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 130 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Santo Domingo Pueblo on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
21% of working residents work in Albuquerque
Where Santo Domingo Pueblo clocks in
21% of workers
16% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Santo Domingo Pueblo
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Santo Domingo Pueblo, 2013 → 2023: 90 → 195. 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 Santo Domingo Pueblo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Santo Domingo Pueblo
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.2% of 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 855 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 100% 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). 8.6% of Santo Domingo Pueblo households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Santo Domingo Pueblo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Santo Domingo Pueblo next to U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200: 4,362nd of 4,995 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 376 | Sandia Heights NM | 3,160 | $144K | 4.7% | 3.5% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 721 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 917 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,360 | Reynoldsville PA | 2,473 | $53K | 19.8% | 8.0% | 12% | D |
| 4,361 | Sumner Township MI | 1,850 | $57K | 16.6% | 6.8% | 2% | D |
| 4,362 | Santo Domingo Pueblo NM | 2,370 | $57K | 23.1% | 9.1% | 15% | D |
| 4,363 | Fredonia KS | 2,041 | $59K | 19.3% | 0.4% | 36% | D |
| 4,364 | Albany KY | 1,729 | $44K | 13.6% | 3.3% | 22% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | 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 Santo Domingo Pueblo, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
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 Santo Domingo Pueblo: questions
What is the median household income in Santo Domingo Pueblo?
$57,375 (±$28,483) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Santo Domingo Pueblo?
23.1%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Santo Domingo Pueblo?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Santo Domingo Pueblo work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albuquerque (21%, 33 mi), Santa Fe (16%, 24 mi), Bernalillo (8%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Santo Domingo Pueblo walkable?
Santo Domingo Pueblo is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Santo Domingo Pueblo without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 100% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Santo Domingo Pueblo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Santo Domingo 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. 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.