Fort Sumner, NM population, income and ZIP codes

Fort Sumner village is a very small community in New Mexico, with 958 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #161 of 527 ranked by population — larger than 69% of them. The median age here is 27.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Fort Sumner village earn a median of not published a year. 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 17.2% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Sumner village is valued at $154,000, 49.2% below the national figure and 19% below the $190,000 peer median, while median gross rent runs $715 a month, 49.1% below the national figure, or roughly $8,580 across a full year. 77.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 27.9 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 958 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Fort Sumner village against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Fort Sumner 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.