Chama, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Chama village is a very small community in New Mexico, with 748 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #191 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 63% of them. The median age here is 60.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Chama village earn a median of not published a year. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 14% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chama village is valued at $194,300, 36% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $529 a month, 62.4% below the national figure, or roughly $6,348 across a full year. 75.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 60.5 puts Chama village well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 748 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chama village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Chama village because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.