Work & commute · Santa Fe Foothills

Work & commute in Santa Fe Foothills, NM

Most working residents leave Santa Fe Foothills for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Santa Fe (53%), Albuquerque (15%) and Los Alamos (5%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 317 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

56%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 312 Santa Fe Foothills residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Santa Fe Foothills.

312live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

174work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Santa Fe Foothills goes to work

Santa Fe5.3 mi away

53%169

Albuquerque55.6 mi away

15%49

Los Alamos28.6 mi away

5%17

Glorieta8.2 mi away

3%10

Eldorado at Santa Fe7.2 mi away

2%7

Cañoncito7.2 mi away

2%6

Santa Fe Foothills (in town)right here

2%5

Española27.7 mi away

1%4

Rio Rancho50.9 mi away

1%4

South Valley61.5 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

14%43

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

How far

How far Santa Fe Foothills commutes

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

65%

11%

22%

65%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Santa Fe Foothills is a commuter town

0.56jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.56 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Santa Fe Foothills are

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

Jobs based in Santa Fe Foothills

179 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)97%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Santa Fe Foothills residents hold

317 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+54%

Jobs based in Santa Fe Foothills, 2013 → 2023: 116 → 179. 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.