Work & commute · Santa Clara

Work & commute in Santa Clara, NM

Most working residents leave Santa Clara for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Silver City (27%), Albuquerque (11%) and Las Cruces (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

22 of 375 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 353 Santa Clara residents head out of town to work, 22 work right here, and 281 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Clara.

353live here, work elsewhere

22live and work here

281work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Clara goes to work

Silver City7 mi away

27%100

Albuquerque182.3 mi away

11%41

Santa Clara (in town)right here

6%22

Las Cruces85.2 mi away

6%22

Bayard1.8 mi away

5%19

El Paso, TX119.2 mi away

4%14

Arenas Valley3.1 mi away

3%11

Deming42.5 mi away

2%8

Safford, AZ90 mi away

1%4

Rio Rancho192 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%130

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Santa Clara commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

50%

43%

50%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

43%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Clara is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Clara are

303 jobs are based in Santa Clara. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Santa Clara’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Santa Clara

303 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month68%

Jobs Santa Clara residents hold

375 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+397%

Jobs based in Santa Clara, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 303. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.