Santa Fe is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 61,805 people and 23 constituent neighborhoods, Santa Fe is the third largest community in New Mexico.

Santa Fe is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.93% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Santa Fe is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Santa Fe who work in office and administrative support jobs (13.27%), sales jobs (12.91%), and management occupations (10.19%).

Of important note, Santa Fe is also a city of artists. Santa Fe has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Santa Fe's character.

Also of interest is that Santa Fe has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 7.31% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One thing noticeable about Santa Fe, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Santa Fe is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Santa Fe a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Santa Fe spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.54 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Santa Fe Information and Demographics

The citizens of Santa Fe are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 40.03% of adults in Santa Fe have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Santa Fe in 2000 was $25,454, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,816 for a family of four.

Santa Fe is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Santa Fe home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Santa Fe is White, followed by Native American. Santa Fe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 47.52% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Santa Fe include English, German, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Santa Fe is English. Some people also speak Spanish.