Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Eldorado at Santa Fe CDP is a mid-size town in New Mexico, with 5,746 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #43 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 61.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Eldorado at Santa Fe CDP earn a median of $96,692 a year, 23.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 79% above 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 8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Eldorado at Santa Fe CDP is valued at $542,800, 78.9% above the national figure and 186% above the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,132 a month, 51.6% above the national figure, or roughly $25,584 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 26.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 94.6% 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.

A median age of 61.7 puts Eldorado at Santa Fe CDP 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.