Best PlacesTesuque Pueblo, NM Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Tesuque Pueblo, 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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Tesuque Pueblo ranks 15,946th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Tesuque Pueblo

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Tesuque Pueblo 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.

Tesuque Pueblo's strengths and weaknesses

Top 3%An educated workforce
Top 5%The weather
Top 10%A strong job market
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Tesuque Pueblo with other towns.

Where Tesuque Pueblo ranks high

  • Educational attainmentBetter than 97% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 164 pleasant days a year, better than 96% of towns
  • Local economyBetter than 93% of towns
  • TransitBetter than 91% of towns
  • Cell coverageBetter than 90% of towns

Where Tesuque Pueblo ranks low

  • Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 5% of towns
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 7% of towns
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 8% of towns
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 26% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Tesuque Pueblo

A household needs to earn about $211,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tesuque Pueblo home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $92,639, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$211,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$4,931
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $852,100 home
Median rent
$1,129
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$4,345
Property tax$302
Homeowners insurance$284

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Tesuque Pueblo's effective rate of 0.43%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Tesuque Pueblo

Tesuque Pueblo runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
68
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
61%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
1.5
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 185%
18 to 344%
35 to 4913%
50 to 6418%
65 and older61%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tesuque Pueblo.


Who works in Tesuque Pueblo, and how

Work in Tesuque Pueblo centers on professional & technical and public administration. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
36%
above the national average
Unemployment
0.8%
below the national average
Job growth
+11.1%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Professional & technical38%
Public administration24%
Education9%
Health care & social8%
Transportation & warehousing7%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 61%
  • Work from home 36%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Tesuque Pueblo

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


What the weather is like in Tesuque Pueblo, month by month

Tesuque Pueblo sees roughly 164 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 19. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January47°31°19°
April71°52°33°
July92°75°58°
October71°54°37°

Flying in and out of Tesuque Pueblo

The nearest airport, Santa Fe Regional, is about 14 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Albuquerque International Sunport, about 63 miles away.

Nearest airport
SAF
Santa Fe Regional, about 14 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
194th-busiest in the US, 7 nonstop destinations
Average drive
19 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Tesuque Pueblo

Schools across Tesuque Pueblo average a C+, better than 60% of towns.

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tesuque Pueblo school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Tesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Tesuque Pueblo

Is Tesuque Pueblo a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tesuque Pueblo ranks 15,946th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, the weather, and a strong job market, and lowest on air quality and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Tesuque Pueblo expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $852,100. The overall cost of living runs about 11% above the national average. Set against a $92,639 median income, cost of living beats 79% of towns.

Is Tesuque Pueblo safe?

Tesuque Pueblo is safer than 5% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $883 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tesuque Pueblo. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tesuque Pueblo 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.

Tesuque Pueblo detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

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

Tesuque Pueblo 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. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.