El Rito, NM population, income and ZIP codes

El Rito CDP is a very small community in New Mexico, with 961 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #158 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 39.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 El Rito CDP earn a median of $24,611 a year, 68.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 54% below the $54,029 median for the 153 New Mexico cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 58.5% 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 El Rito CDP is valued at $273,700, 9.8% below the national figure and 44% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 11.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 100% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 11.1× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. With 961 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare El Rito CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for El Rito 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.