Best PlacesLos Ojos, NM Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Los Ojos, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Los Ojos ranks 39,126th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in Los Ojos

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Los Ojos area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

Los Ojos' strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%The weather
Top 3%Quiet
Top 10%Heat safety
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Los Ojos with other towns.

Where Los Ojos ranks high

  • Nice weatherabout 177 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 97% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 91% of towns
  • TransitBetter than 89% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 89% of towns

Where Los Ojos ranks low

  • Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Voter turnoutBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Short commute39.5 minutes each way, better than only 6% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 10% of towns

Who lives in Los Ojos

Los Ojos runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
23%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.2
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1818%
18 to 3419%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6420%
65 and older23%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Los Ojos.


Who works in Los Ojos, and how

Work in Los Ojos centers on admin & support services and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
7.8%
above the national average
Job growth
+19.6%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Admin & support services28%
Education22%
Health care & social20%
Public administration19%
Transportation & warehousing7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 90%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 4%

Life in Los Ojos

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Los Ojos.


What the weather is like in Los Ojos, month by month

Los Ojos sees roughly 177 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 84 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 13. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January38°25°13°
April60°44°29°
July84°67°51°
October63°47°32°

Flying in and out of Los Ojos

The nearest airport, San Luis Valley Regional/Bergman Field, is about 61 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Albuquerque International Sunport, about 118 miles away.

Nearest airport
ALS
San Luis Valley Regional/Bergman Field, about 61 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
375th-busiest in the US, 1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
87 min
from the area, with no traffic

Los Ojos measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Los Ojos against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Los Ojos

Is Los Ojos a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Los Ojos ranks 39,126th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, quiet, and heat safety, and lowest on crime and civic engagement. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Los Ojos safe?

Los Ojos is safer than 1% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,378 per resident a year.

What is the weather like in Los Ojos?

July highs average about 84 degrees, and January highs near 38 with lows near 13. That works out to about 177 pleasant days a year, more than 98% of towns.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Los Ojos. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Los Ojos represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

Los Ojos detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Los Ojos: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Los Ojos: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Los Ojos: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Los Ojos: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Los Ojos detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  5. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  6. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  7. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  8. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  9. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  10. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  11. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.