Households in Tano Road have higher incomes than those in 98% of U.S. towns
39% of workers work from home (New Mexico 12%). Poverty touches 9.8% of residents, next to 17.8% for New Mexico as a whole. For jobs and income Tano Road is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tano Road: the figures worth knowing
Tano Road and Santa Fe trade workers both ways
Santa Fe is the top workplace for Tano Road residents (42%) and also where the most people who work in Tano Road come from (46% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Home offices are common in Tano Road
39% of Tano Road workers work from home, against 12% across New Mexico. Time on the road ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Tano Road’s working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 35 minutes, longer than the New Mexico average of 24. 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 394 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Tano Road’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income holds Tano Road’s grade up ($183,162, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.4%) is left out: Tano Road’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tano Road could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
42% of working residents work in Santa Fe
Where Tano Road clocks in
42% of workers
17% of workers
17% 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.
Time on the road from Tano Road: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tano Road workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 352 commuters (the 39% 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 works in Tano Road, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 375 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 175 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Tano Road on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.49 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.
71% of the jobs in Tano Road pay over $3,333 a month
194 jobs are based in Tano Road.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tano Road, 2013 → 2023: 264 → 194. 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 Tano Road’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Tano Road to work
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Tano Road gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across New Mexico, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 573 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). 6.4% of Tano Road households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tano Road’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Tano Road comes 1,860th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 618 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 795 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 948 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,858 | Greenfield Township OH | 1,332 | $82K | 6.2% | 1.9% | <1% | B− |
| 1,859 | Farmington Township PA | 1,730 | $87K | 4.0% | 0.5% | 15% | B− |
| 1,860 | Tano Road NM | 1,586 | $183K | 9.8% | 6.4% | 5% | B− |
| 1,861 | Somerset TX | 1,872 | $78K | 17.2% | 6.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,862 | Saratoga WY | 1,766 | $85K | 2.9% | 0.0% | 50% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Tano Road, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
44% of Tano Road works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Santa Fe (42%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tano Road workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tano Road | – | B− | B | 35 min | $183,162 |
| La Tierra | under 1% | — | — | — | — |
| Santa Fe | 42% | C+ | A | 21 min | $73,482 |
| Las Campanas | 1% | B+ | B | 20 min | $204,922 |
| Tres Arroyos | under 1% | A− | C | 32 min | $87,841 |
| Tesuque | 1% | C− | B | 15 min | $55,865 |
Same-state neighbors only. La Tierra: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tano Road’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 Tano Road: questions
What is the median household income in Tano Road?
$183,162 (±$27,807) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tano Road?
9.8%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tano Road?
35 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 39% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tano Road work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Santa Fe (42%, 5 mi), Los Alamos (17%, 20 mi), Albuquerque (17%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tano Road walkable?
Tano Road is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tano Road without a car?
0% 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 Tano Road, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tano Road
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.