Work means Santa Fe for about half of Tres Arroyos’ working residents
Only 2% work in Tres Arroyos; the top destination outside it is Santa Fe (50%, 4 miles). For jobs and income Tres Arroyos is better than 76% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C). At home: 25% of workers have no commute at all (New Mexico 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Tres Arroyos in brief
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Tres Arroyos’ working residents have a job less than 6 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 32 minutes, longer than the New Mexico average of 24. Time on the road ↓
Most Tres Arroyos residents work close to home
61% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 760 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Tres Arroyos’ Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Tres Arroyos’ grade up (2.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Tres Arroyos’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, Tres Arroyos could be anywhere from B− to A.
The places Tres Arroyos commutes to
Where Tres Arroyos clocks in
50% of workers
13% 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.
From Tres Arroyos, about 32 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tres Arroyos workers work from home, vs 12% across New Mexico. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 594 commuters (the 25% 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 Tres Arroyos goes to work
About 17% 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.
How many people are in Tres Arroyos by day
On a workday 746 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Tres Arroyos on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.
0.35 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.
Inside Tres Arroyos’ 268 jobs
268 jobs are based in Tres Arroyos.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tres Arroyos, 2013 → 2023: 193 → 268. 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 Tres Arroyos’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Tres Arroyos walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 795 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). 11.0% of Tres Arroyos households have no vehicle (New Mexico 5.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tres Arroyos’ commuters take a bus or train.
Tres Arroyos places 925th of 5,921 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
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| 727 | Picacho Hills NM | 2,002 | $121K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 923 | Minden Township MN | 1,543 | $76K | 3.2% | 1.7% | 3% | A− |
| 924 | Tilden WI | 1,537 | $107K | 5.3% | 2.8% | 1% | A− |
| 925 | Tres Arroyos NM | 1,926 | $88K | 2.2% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| 926 | Cleveland WI | 1,487 | $101K | 3.4% | 1.3% | 1% | A− |
| 927 | Shadow Lake WA | 2,465 | $153K | 11.9% | 3.6% | <1% | A− |
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| 1,102 | Little Walnut Village NM | 1,445 | $125K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
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| 1,243 | Mesilla NM | 1,818 | $75K | 4.5% | 6.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Tres Arroyos, the top three, the last and three more from New Mexico.
Bordering towns draw 51% of Tres Arroyos’ workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tres Arroyos workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tres Arroyos | – | A− | C | 32 min | $87,841 |
| Las Campanas | 1% | B+ | B | 20 min | $204,922 |
| Santa Fe | 50% | C+ | A | 21 min | $73,482 |
| Tano Road | under 1% | B− | B | 35 min | $183,162 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Santa Fe. Darker towns draw more of Tres Arroyos’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 Tres Arroyos: questions
What is the median household income in Tres Arroyos?
$87,841 (±$32,836) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $64,059 across New Mexico and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tres Arroyos?
2.2%, against 17.8% across New Mexico and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tres Arroyos?
32 minutes each way on average, against 24 across New Mexico and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tres Arroyos work?
2% work in town.
Is Tres Arroyos walkable?
Tres Arroyos is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tres Arroyos without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tres Arroyos, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tres Arroyos
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.