Chical, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Chical CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 148 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #389 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 35.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Chical CDP earn a median of $83,304 a year, 6.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 54% above the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 56.8% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chical CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 84.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 148 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chical CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Chical CDP 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.