Santa Clara's economy is tied to Grant County copper and to Silver City, about 7 miles west. Freeport-McMoRan's Chino operation at Santa Rita anchors Mining District employment and sets the top of the local pay scale, while health care, public schools, and retail fill out the rest. The historic Fort Bayard campus, a state medical and veterans site, sits just north of the village.
At Santa Clara's size the American Community Survey does not report a reliable industry-by-industry breakdown, so this profile describes the mix rather than charting shares that would carry very wide margins of error. The county-level industry chart on the Grant County profile shows the regional pattern.
JTIP's small-community tiers apply to Grant County hires: see the JTIP guide. Santa Clara's combined gross receipts tax rate is 7.375%: check any address in the GRT tool.
Median household income and median gross rent are omitted: at this population the ACS estimates carry margins of error of about $24,000 and $240, too wide to publish as single figures.