Best PlacesTijeras, NM Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tijeras, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Tijeras ranks 8,087th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Tijeras
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.
Tijeras' strengths and weaknesses
Where Tijeras ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 180 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 92% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 84% of towns
- Household income$98,070 median, better than 83% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 80% of towns
Where Tijeras ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 4% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 17% of towns
- Local economyBetter than only 19% of towns
- Short commute32.4 minutes each way, better than only 22% of towns
- State infrastructureBetter than only 31% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tijeras
A household needs to earn about $89,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tijeras home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $98,070, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Tijeras' effective rate of 0.66%, 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.
Who lives in Tijeras
Tijeras runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tijeras.
Who works in Tijeras, and how
Work in Tijeras centers on professional & technical and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 21%
- Transit, walk, or bike 2%
Life in Tijeras
Tijeras has more parkland per resident than 98% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Tijeras and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tijeras, month by month
Tijeras sees roughly 180 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 90 degrees. January highs sit near 48, with lows near 18. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 48° | 31° | 18° |
| April | 70° | 52° | 33° |
| July | 90° | 73° | 56° |
| October | 71° | 52° | 36° |
Flying in and out of Tijeras
Albuquerque International Sunport sits about 18 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 2.6 million passengers in 2025, with 69 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Tijeras
Schools across Tijeras average a B−, better than 64% of towns.
Top high schools
- Nex Gen AcademyA · 75% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tijeras school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tijeras 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 Tijeras against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tijeras
Is Tijeras a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tijeras ranks 8,087th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, an educated workforce, and what local pay buys, and lowest on air quality and internet speeds. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tijeras expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $345,388. The overall cost of living runs about 7% below the national average. Set against a $98,070 median income, cost of living beats 84% of towns.
Is Tijeras safe?
Tijeras is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $414 per resident a year.
Compare Tijeras with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tijeras. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tijeras 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.
Tijeras detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tijeras: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tijeras: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tijeras: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tijeras: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tijeras detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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